In 'Vers une Architecture', published in 1923, Le Corbusier equates the pure forms of the machine with the pure forms of the Parthenon to illustrate his view of architecture as a question of mass rather than facades, and that machines are highly architectural. First published in English in 1927, it is the most influential architectural manifesto ...
In this text, Fil Hearn identifies and codifies into theoretical systems the operative tenets of architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present.
This volume brings together core writings on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorists of the 20th century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer perspectives on the questions of architecture and rethinks many of the accepted tenets of ...
In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in "The Eyes of the Skin", by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. "The Thinking Hand" is a metaphor for the characteristic ...
This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another.: This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry, ...
"Modern Architecture" is a landmark text - the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most ...
Divided into three books, in more or less chronological order, "As I Was Saying" includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda, some of which have appeared only in obscure periodicals, and many never published at all. Also included is a retrospective view of selected work of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell and other ...
The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book, he ...
In this long-awaited work, Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity. In doing so, he offers nothing less than an account of the ontological and cultural foundations of modern architecture and, consequently, of the nature and cultural ...
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements ...
Louis I. Kahn's influence on American architecture during his life was great, and his influence has only increased in the 33 years since his death - with interest in his work lately moving into the realm of popular culture through the successful film about him, "My Architect" (New Yorker Films, 2004). John Lobell's classic work presents stunning ...
World-renowned architect Cesar Pelli has distilled the wisdom and experience gained through many years of practice into this deeply felt book meant for those interested in or about to embark upon the profession of architecture. His passion and understanding for the richness and complexity of architecture is transmitted throughout this personal ...
Walter Benjamin observed in his writings on the interior that 'to live means to leave traces.' This interior design theory reader focuses on just how such traces might manifest themselves. In order to explore interior design's links to other disciplines, the selected texts reflect a wide range of interests extending beyond the traditional confines ...
Architecture depends - on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, is dependent on things outside itself. Despite the claims of architects to autonomy, purity, and control, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. ...
In THE EMERALD CITY, Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. his essays range from the Tower of Babel to the Wizard of Oz, from Christo to Christmas trees, from the "lightness of being" to the "weight of architecture...." Willis's perspective as a writer, ...
In Event-Cities 3, Bernard Tschumi explores the complex and productive triangulation of architectural concept, context, and content. There is no architecture without a concept, an overriding idea that gives coherence and identity to a building. But there is also no architecture without context - historical, geographical, cultural - or content ...
To speak comprehensively about a building today requires thinking about the building in three different ways - as an instance of architectural order, as an embodiment of values about living, and as an instrument for bringing about results. With this insight, Bill Hubbard offers architects a new way of thinking about the work they do. He looks at ...
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
In this discussion of architectural theory, the author offers a portrait of architecture in which use, symbol, and metaphor coexist. The author examines the subject with as few preconceptions as possible, taking familiar concepts and stripping away all associations to produce new interpretations.
Can architecture directly engage with the inner experience of people? Does it have universal or spiritual content? "Poetics in Architecture" attempts to address these questions by looking at the essence of meaning of architecture and considering the human response to buildings. Schaik's concern is that by focusing on technical refinements and new ...
Divided into three books, in more or less chronological order, "As I Was Saying" includes articles, essays, eulogies, lectures, reviews, and memoranda, some of which have appeared only in obscure periodicals, and many never published at all. Also included is a retrospective view of selected work of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell and other ...
This book draws from anthropology, ancient history, theology, philosophy and the Holocaust to redefine architectural history for both architects and historians. It also contains ideas and practical propositions that should help sutdents of architecture to build a more human world. The central question of the book is the relationship between ...
Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. In this book Wigley redefines the question of deconstruction and architecture. By locating the architecture already hidden ...
"Socrates' Ancestor" is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek ...
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy pioneered one form of cultural studies in India. One direction of his analysis of Indian civilization extended to Indian ideas and theories of architecture. This volume presents the essays that best represent Coomaraswamy's thought on the hermeneutics of Indian architecture, concentrating on its "why" not its "how".
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