Towards An Architecture Of Today
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Towards An Architecture Of Today
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Author : Nicola Di Battista
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Towards An Architecture Of Today written by Nicola Di Battista and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
Architecture Today
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Author : James Steele
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 2001-01-05
Architecture Today written by James Steele and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-05 with Architecture categories.
A guide to the prominent architectural movements of the last 25 years.
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture
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Author : Iain Borden
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-03-11
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture written by Iain Borden and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-11 with Architecture categories.
How do we think about architecture historically andtheoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architectureprovides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in whicharchitectural history and theory are being approached today. The inspiration for this project is the work of Adrian Forty,Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School ofArchitecture, University College London (UCL), who has beeninternationally renowned as the UK’s leading academic in thediscipline for 40 years. Forty’s many publications, notablyObjects of Desire (1986), Words and Buildings (2000)and Concrete and Culture (2012), have been crucial toopening up new approaches to architectural history and theory andhave helped to establish entirely new areas of study. His teachingat The Bartlett has enthused a new generation about the excitingpossibilities of architectural history and theory as a field. This collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering keysubjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life,building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory,philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to moreimmediate and topical issues in the built environment, such asglobalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. Concise andengaging entries reflect on architecture from a range ofperspectives. Contributors include eminent historians and theorists fromelsewhere – such as Jean-Louis Cohen, Briony Fer, HildeHeynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny Sparke and AnthonyVidler – as well as Forty’s colleagues from theBartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, MurrayFraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint.Forty Ways to Think about Architecture also featurescontributions from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton,Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics andarchitectural writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking andThomas Weaver. Many of the contributors are former students ofAdrian Forty. Through these diverse essays, readers are encouraged to thinkabout how architectural history and theory relates to their ownresearch and design practices, thus using the work of Adrian Fortyas a catalyst for fresh and innovative thinking about architectureas a subject.
The Decorative Art Of Today
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Author : Le Corbusier
language : en
Publisher: Butterworth Architecture
Release Date : 1987
The Decorative Art Of Today written by Le Corbusier and has been published by Butterworth Architecture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art deco categories.
Architects Today
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Author : Kester Rattenbury
language : en
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Architects Today written by Kester Rattenbury and has been published by Laurence King Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Architecture categories.
This volume offers both an introduction to and an insight into key contemporary architects as well as giving a snapshot of the varied nature of architecture today. For each architect there are details of their life and work and illustrations of their most representative and iconic buildings.
Towards A Critique Of Architecture S Contemporaneity
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Author : Gevork Hartoonian
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-02-14
Towards A Critique Of Architecture S Contemporaneity written by Gevork Hartoonian and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with Architecture categories.
Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architecture’s contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding, and labor. Fundamental to this proposition is the historicity of Gottfried Semper’s theorization of architecture amidst the outpouring of new materials and construction techniques during the 1850s. Starting with Semper’s differentiation between theatricalization and the tectonic of theatricality, this book examines thematic essential to architecture’s self-representation. Even though the title of this book recalls the Semperian Four Elements of Architecture, its argument encapsulates a unique historico-theoretical project probing the tectonic of theatricality beyond Semper. The invisible tie between technique and labor is the cord running through the four subjects covered in this book. In exploring these subjects from the theoretical standpoint of Marxian dialectics, this book’s contribution is focused on, but not limited to, the topicality of labor today when its relationship with capital has been further obscured by the prevailing digitalization of commodity exchange value, starting roughly in the 1990s. Each essay examines Semper’s theorization of architecture in contradistinction to the ways in which technology’s mediation has dominated architecture’s representation. Burrowing through the invisible tie between technique and work, asymptomatic of architecture’s predicament in global capitalism, Towards a Critique of Architecture’s Contemporaneity advances the scope of architectural criticism beyond the exhausted formalism and architecture’s turn to philosophy circa the 1980s and the present tendencies for presentism. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of architectural history and theory.
Architect Knows Best
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Author : Simon Richards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Architect Knows Best written by Simon Richards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Architecture categories.
The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and José Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century. Their proposals for functional zoning, multi-level transport, high-rise living, and machine-inspired aesthetics came under attack from the 1950s onwards, and many alternative approaches to architecture and planning emerged. It was thought that the environmental determinist strand of the discourse was killed off at this time as well. This book argues that it was not, but on the contrary, that it has deepened and diversified. Many of the most prominent architect-planners continue to design with a view to improving the behaviour of individual people and of society at large. By looking at - and interviewing - major figures and movements of recent years in Britain, Europe and America, including Léon Krier, Peter Eisenman, Andrés Duany, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, it demonstrates the myriad ways that architect-planners seek to shape human behaviour through buildings. In doing so, the book raises awareness of this strand within the discourse and examines its different purposes and manifestations. It questions whether it is an ineradicable and beneficial part of architecture and planning, or a regrettable throwback to a more authoritarian phase, discusses why is it seldom acknowledged directly and whether it could be handled more responsibly and with greater understanding. Richards does not provide any simple solutions but in conclusion, is critical of architect-planners who abuse the rhetoric of social reform simply to leverage their attempts to secure building commissions, while being more sympathetic towards those who appear to have a sincere desire to improve society through their buildings.
Architecture Of Today
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Author : A. Papadakēs
language : en
Publisher: Vilo International
Release Date : 1991
Architecture Of Today written by A. Papadakēs and has been published by Vilo International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
Illustrates the restoration of architecture as a major art form in the last decades of the twentieth century through the work of over forty internationally renowned architects.
An Architecture Manifesto
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Author : Nadir Lahiji
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-02-06
An Architecture Manifesto written by Nadir Lahiji and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-06 with Architecture categories.
In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. This is the wrong path contemporary architecture has taken. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium. Capitalist consumer society creates desires by generating ‘surplus-enjoyment’ for capitalist profit and contemporary architecture has become an instrument in generating this ‘surplus-enjoyment’, with fatal consequences. This manifesto is thus both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and a timely response to the conditions of architecture today.
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture
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Author : Iain Borden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-25
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture written by Iain Borden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-25 with categories.