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Critical Architecture


Critical Architecture
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Author : Jane Rendell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-09-12

Critical Architecture written by Jane Rendell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-12 with Architecture categories.


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.



Global Perspectives On Critical Architecture


Global Perspectives On Critical Architecture
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Author : Gevork Hartoonian
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03

Global Perspectives On Critical Architecture written by Gevork Hartoonian and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Architecture categories.


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?



Constructing A Place Of Critical Architecture In China


Constructing A Place Of Critical Architecture In China
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Author : Guanghui Ding
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09

Constructing A Place Of Critical Architecture In China written by Guanghui Ding and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Architecture categories.


For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices. In doing so, this book argues that the journal has engaged in the presentation and production of a particular form of critical architecture - described as an ’intermediate criticality’ - as a response to the particular constraints of the Chinese cultural and political context. The journal’s publications displayed a ’dual critique’ - a resistant attitude to the dominant modes of commercial building practice, characterised by rapid and large-scale urban expansion, and an alternative publishing practice focusing on emerging, independent architectural practitioners through the active integration of theoretical debates, architectural projects, and criticisms. This dual critique is illustrated through a careful review and analysis of the history and programme of the journal. By showing how the work of emerging architects, including Yung Ho Chang, Wang Shu, Liu Jiakun and Urbanus, are situated within the context of the journal’s special thematic editions on experimental architecture, exhibition, group design, new urban space and professional system, the book assesses the contribution the journal has made to the emergence of a critical architecture in China, in the context of how it was articulated, debated, presented and perhaps even ’produced’ within the pages of the publication itself. The protagonists of critical architecture have endeavoured to construct an alternative mode of form and space with strong aesthetic and socio-political implications to the predominant production of architecture under the current Chinese socialist market economy. To rebel against certain forms of domination and suppression by capital and power is by no means to completely reject them; rather, it is to use thos



Notes On Critical Architecture Praxis Reloaded


Notes On Critical Architecture Praxis Reloaded
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Author : Gevork Hartoonian
language : en
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
Release Date : 2015-10-01

Notes On Critical Architecture Praxis Reloaded written by Gevork Hartoonian and has been published by Lund Humphries Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Architecture categories.


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. 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.



Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture


Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture
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Author : William J. Lillyman
language : en
Publisher: University of California Humanities Research Institute
Release Date : 1994-02-17

Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture written by William J. Lillyman and has been published by University of California Humanities Research Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.


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.



Critical Practices In Architecture


Critical Practices In Architecture
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Author : Jonathan Bean
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-06

Critical Practices In Architecture written by Jonathan Bean and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-06 with Architecture categories.


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.



Scogin Elam And Bray


Scogin Elam And Bray
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Author : Ann Bergren
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 1992

Scogin Elam And Bray written by Ann Bergren and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Architecture categories.


"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.



Oxymoron And Pleonasm Conversation On American Critical


Oxymoron And Pleonasm Conversation On American Critical
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Author : Monika Mitasova
language : en
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-04-29

Oxymoron And Pleonasm Conversation On American Critical written by Monika Mitasova and has been published by Actar D, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Architecture categories.


Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture. Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary Mcleod, Beatriz Colomina, Stan Allen, Joan Ockman, Robert Somol, Sarah Whiting, Michael Speaks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin.



Global Perspectives On Critical Architecture


Global Perspectives On Critical Architecture
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Author : Gevork Hartoonian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Global Perspectives On Critical Architecture written by Gevork Hartoonian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Architecture and globalization categories.




Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture


Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture
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Author : William J. Lillyman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023

Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture written by William J. Lillyman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Architecture, Modern categories.