Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture ...
Author: Jane Rendell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134120024
Category: Architecture
Page: 368
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Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts. With forty essays by an international cast of leading architectural academics, this accessible single source text on the topical subject of architectural criticism is ideal for undergraduate as well as post graduate study.
At the symposium, I was also quite literally left speechless by your questions,
questions that I could not answer personally, questions that, indeed, must be
directed to architecture for a reply. Why was I so stunned, so taken aback?
Perhaps on ...
Author: William J. Lillyman
Publisher: University of California Humanities Research Institute
ISBN: 0195360168
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 224
View: 769
The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists and architects to offer a variety of perspectives on the relation between postmodernism and architecture. The contributors include such luminaries from the forefront of literary studies as J. Hillis Miller, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Francois Lyotard; the architects Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Robert Stern offer their perspectives on the critical role of architecture and contemporary culture. The high caliber of the discourse and the variety of approaches included will draw a scholarly audience from a wide range of disciplines.
For the formation of contemporary architectural discourses, two further important
sources can be observed. ... While certain modes of critical thinking can be
discerned in these examples, few references to “critical architecture” or “criticality”
are ...
Author: Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317127451
Category: Architecture
Page: 246
View: 663
Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the architect’s role in the design and production processes of architecture. Moreover, critical architectural theories, including those of Breton, Heidegger and Benjamin, which explored the concepts of technology, modernism, labour and capital and how technology informed the cultural, along with later theories from the 1960s, which focused more on the architect’s theorization of his/her own design strategies, seem increasingly irrelevant. In an age of digital reproduction and commodification, these theoretical approaches need to be reassessed. Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Peggy Deamer, Bernard Tschumi, Donald Kunze and Marco Biraghi, this volume investigates and critically addresses various dimensions of the present crisis of architecture. It poses questions such as: Is architecture a conservative cultural product servicing a given producer/consumer system? Should architecture’s affiliative ties with capitalism be subjected to a measure of criticism that can be expanded to the entirety of the cultural realm? Is architecture’s infusion into the cultural the reason for the visibility of architecture today? What room does the city leave for architecture beyond the present delirium of spectacle? Should the thematic of various New Left criticisms of capitalism be taken as the premise of architectural criticism? Or alternatively, putting the notion of criticality aside is it enough to confine criticism to the production of insightful and pleasurable texts?
Author: Scogin, Elam and Bray Architects (Atlanta, Ga.)Publish On: 1992
Critical appraisal of this young firm of American architects
Author: Scogin, Elam and Bray Architects (Atlanta, Ga.)
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: UOM:39015048087236
Category: Architecture
Page: 224
View: 652
"The architecture of Scogin, Elam, and Bray offers an uncontestably intriguing object for critics and theorists. Their practice is markedly unconventional, but still participates in and reinterprets numerous architectural conventions, from 'modernism' and 'economy' to 'regionalism' and the proprieties of the profession. This ambitious work and the skillful subtlety of its forms provokes a reconsideration of what makes architecture critical, as well as a reformulation of prevalent approaches to architectural criticism. Thus Mark Linder, in his preface, introduces a book in which 'the architecture and the writing are equal partners.' Based on the symposium 'Critical Architecture/Architectural Criticism: the Work of Scogin Elam and Bray,' held in May 1990 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this book is neither simply a presentation of a firm's oeuvre nor merely a collection of illustrated essays. It presents the visual and verbal material in a way that emphasizes the interchanges and debate of the symposium. The authors, all of whom participated in the symposium, explore nine built projects and other unrealized designs by this adventurous young firm, including the downtown branch of the High Museum, Turner Village at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, and the Buckhead Library in Atlanta"-- Page 4 of cover.
This book embraces the idea that in today’s complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the environment, and society.
Author: Jonathan Bean
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527544956
Category: Architecture
Page: 422
View: 731
This book embraces the idea that in today’s complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the environment, and society. It also brings authors into conversation to focus on the built environment from the perspective of critical practice. The authors take as a starting point Jane Rendell’s ground-breaking work, which defines critical spatial practice as “self-reflective modes of thought that seek to change the world.” In opposition to conventional conceptions of architectural education and work, this book reflects how socially engaged architects, landscape architects, designers, urbanists, and artists take up critical spatial practice. Bridging ideas from multiple countries and approaches to design scholarship, each chapter seeks to find places of convergence for the multiple strands that form around themes of practice, equality, methods, theory, ethics, pedagogy, and representation. Rendell’s foreword and postscript provide context for these themes and suggest a way forward in today’s challenging, changing times.
Author: Asst Prof David RifkindPublish On: 2014-03-28
See Geoffrey Broadbent, “The Architecture of Deconstruction,” in Deconstruction:
A Student Guide (London: Academy ... 41 Frank Gehry, “Keynote Address” to the
Symposium on “Postmodernism and Beyond: Architecture as the Critical Art of ...
Author: Asst Prof David Rifkind
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781472429391
Category: Architecture
Page: 530
View: 637
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. The first section provides a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.
Author: Scogin, Elam and Bray Architects (Atlanta, Ga.)Publish On: 1992
' Based on the symposium 'Critical Architecture/Architectural Criticism: the Work of Scogin Elam and Bray,' held in May 1990 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this book is neither simply a presentation of a firm's oeuvre nor merely a ...
Author: Scogin, Elam and Bray Architects (Atlanta, Ga.)
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: UOM:39015048087236
Category: Architecture
Page: 224
View: 181
"The architecture of Scogin, Elam, and Bray offers an uncontestably intriguing object for critics and theorists. Their practice is markedly unconventional, but still participates in and reinterprets numerous architectural conventions, from 'modernism' and 'economy' to 'regionalism' and the proprieties of the profession. This ambitious work and the skillful subtlety of its forms provokes a reconsideration of what makes architecture critical, as well as a reformulation of prevalent approaches to architectural criticism. Thus Mark Linder, in his preface, introduces a book in which 'the architecture and the writing are equal partners.' Based on the symposium 'Critical Architecture/Architectural Criticism: the Work of Scogin Elam and Bray,' held in May 1990 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this book is neither simply a presentation of a firm's oeuvre nor merely a collection of illustrated essays. It presents the visual and verbal material in a way that emphasizes the interchanges and debate of the symposium. The authors, all of whom participated in the symposium, explore nine built projects and other unrealized designs by this adventurous young firm, including the downtown branch of the High Museum, Turner Village at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, and the Buckhead Library in Atlanta"-- Page 4 of cover.
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Moorish architects contrived to increase the impression of the magnitude of
buildings of ...
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impressed on Italian architecture , for which the motive is absent in this country .
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USED IN GRECIAN , ROMAN , ITALIAN , AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE . By
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( November 1952 ) , 151 - 158 + . Newman , Oscar . " New Frontiers in Architecture , " Documents of Modern Architecture , ed . Jürgen Joedicke . New
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Dorian façade existed in Asia Minor long before the Dorian and Ionian colonies
were established there , it is a fair conclusion that the Dorian and Ionian architecture , like the distinctions of dialect , was due to the reaction of the Dorian
and ...
A Treatise on Applied Mechanics Especially Adapted to the Use of Architects
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Methods in Construction Practice John Wiley and Sons , Inc . , New York , N . Y .
1965 . Architectural Forum Time , Inc . , Chicago , Illinois , June 1963 Architectural ...
And in regard to architecture, the true use of the forms of the past was really
suggested by Mr. Lethaby himself, when he said that " out of the critical use of
past tradition, we must build up a tradition of our own." There I have the pleasure
of ...
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ROOM Data Base Architecture for Instrument Characteristics Critical to
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L. Allen ...
There seems to be good reason for believing that the Pelasgians acquired their
distinctive character , that of agriculturists and architects , in the fertile plains of
Asia Minor , and under that climate which was afterwards so prolific in works of
art ...
