Architecture - Criticism

Flexibility, mobility and versatility: these three qualities have driven technological and formal innovations in design and architecture at least since modernism. Living in Motion is the first interdisciplinary account of flexible living, presenting works by modernist and contemporary architects and designers such as Charles...

This book compiles guidelines for assessing the suitability and vulnerability of landscape for renewable energy projects and provides a multilingual glossary of terms for discussing landscape and renewable energy production, equipping the reader with tools and strategies for garnering public participation in urban planning.Author:...

As the average human lifespan increases, it is increasingly necessary for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people, particularly those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a...

In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the...

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vienna's Ringstrasse, this illustrated volume brings to life the "Ringstrasse Society," depicting architects and artists involved with the fascinating ensembles of buildings, everyday life, banks and houses. Current photographs capture the still-visible wealth of this architectural legacy.Author: Alfred FogarassyISBN-10:...

Author: Clare LysterISBN-10: 3038214701ISBN-13: 9783038214700Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2016Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbs

I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red is a selection of essays on the art and architecture of Portugal by Yehuda Safran, who has been a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute,...

First published in 2006 (and now rare), and originally written as a dissertation in 1963, The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture is the acclaimed American architect Peter Eisenman's masterly formal analysis of architecture. "I wanted to write an analytic work that related what I...

This book brings together a diverse range of exemplary architectural projects from across the globe. Carefully selected and examined by a team of experts, these projects demonstrate innovative approaches that respond to the challenges and potentials of contemporary conditions and contexts. One guiding principle...

Despite the historical significance of form in architecture, the subject is frequently undervalued in debate. This book relates a variety of ideas regarding form, not only through aesthetic and technological approaches, but also from social and political positions. The contents underline the cultural and...

A historical record of the U.S. contribution to global architectural thoughtThe OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914...

The Air from Other Planets introduces an architecture built and controlled by amplifying and designing the energy within our electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical environment. This approach to design exchanges the walls and shells we have assumed to be the only type of attainable...

Struggles to escape form as a manifestation of various norms and constraints are as old as architecture itself. But the formless is also increasingly in the air today, explicitly as in discussions of the "formless" quality of the city, and implicitly in talk of...

This issue focuses on: 1) Exploring the significance of territorial spatial planning by stressing its necessity and main ideas under the contemporary background of ecological civilization construction in China, while re-examining the role of landscape architects in this reform. 2) Strengthening research on related...

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politics Foundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private...

By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward a philosophy of shelter'. Taking Marx as its...

Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was discovered and described, and investigates how space and time...

The role of architecture and urban design in politically and ecologically responsible consumerismThis issue of OASE explores the notion of metabolism--converting one form of matter into another--in urban design and architecture. Focusing on "metabolic" locations--public restrooms, communal kitchens, urban slaughterhouses--OASE 104 analyzes how architecture...

A boxed set of three zines, each featuring text by an internationally renowned architectIn this series of books curated by Z rich-based Studio Jan De Vylder, renowned international architects reflect on important buildings, gardens, books and moments in their lives and careers. The first...

A diverse anthology of work from the fabled Engadin Art Talks, with Eileen Myles, Thomas Hirschhorn and many moreIn the Engadine mountain village of Zuoz, high in the Swiss Alps, artists, architects and scientists gather every winter to talk about their ideas and projects...

Author: Alejandro de la SotaISBN-10: 1870890744ISBN-13: 9781870890748Publisher: AA PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 12.60h x 9.60w x 0.30d

The book focused initially on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late Medieval and Renaissance period, profuse in the exchange of ideas and discovery, behind much of which was the impact of Dante's Divine Comedy with a...

The "organic" is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of...

The dissemination of architectural discourse is a fundamental component in the constitution of the discipline as a cultural practice. This dissemination is not, as in other fields, an activity exclusively linked to the effort of making its contents accessible to a general or specialized...

Architects contemplate Hannah Arendt's spatial-political thinkingHannah Arendt once stated that spatial thinking is political thinking. The latest issue of OASE gathers contributions from architects--George Baird, Patrick Bouchain, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mary Duggan--who examine their work from Arendt's perspective.Author: Hannah ArendtISBN-10: 9462085617ISBN-13: 9789462085619Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage:...

NESS.docs is Lots of Architecture's monographic series. Each issue features one practice or subject for in-depth analysis: interviews, texts, and a variety of graphic pieces cooperate to unveil singular work that can globally inspire modes of thought about architecture and landscape. In the Browser...

Jody Griffith is Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Penn State Scranton.Author: Jody GriffithISBN-10: 1438478321ISBN-13: 9781438478326Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2021Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in architecture - from brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions...

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are "post-critical," this book seeks to expand the critical dimension of architecture and urbanism.In a series of...

Experiments in architectural education in the post-World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about...

NESS.docs is Lots of Architecture's monographic series. Each issue features one practice or subject for in-depth analysis: interviews, texts, and a variety of graphic pieces cooperate to unveil singular work that can globally inspire modes of thought about architecture and landscape. The first NESS.docs...

Atopia as both the site of architecture's critical confrontation with hegemonic systems and the theoretical space in which its own processes can be challenged. A literal no-place, atopia represents the spatial end-product of a society seemingly flattened by supra-territorial flows of information and material....

Author: Branko MitrovićISBN-10: 1954081456ISBN-13: 9781954081451Publisher: Oro EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation's Better Shelter to Airbnb's Open...

Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can...

This book presents a new take on the evolution of digital design theories in architecture from modernity to today, as they have been inspired both by contemporary philosophy and the emergence and access to advanced computation. It focuses on how concepts of difference in...

This book offers a collection of essays that shed light on the urban situation from a variety of scholarly angles. Chapter themes range from examinations of the city through the lens of literature, exploring how literature can be employed to frame the urban experience,...

On architectural ornament and its contradictions This edition of the Catalan architecture magazine Quaderns considers architectural ornament at three scales: the architectural detail, the architectural structure and the urban.Author: Ferran GrauISBN-10: 8434314010ISBN-13: 9788434314016Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2025Pages: 144Format: Paperback

Rhetoric provides a repertoire of different methods for original and innovative creation by introducing notions of surprise, the unexpected, and conflict. The myths of "inspiration" and "the brilliant idea" dominate explanations of the genesis of many architectural and creative projects. Nevertheless, perhaps the most...

In recent years, China has issued several basin-scale plans to deal with pressing resources, environmental, and social problems caused by regional urbanization. These plans help push ahead flood control and disaster reduction, the allocation, utilization, and conservation of water resources, water ecological environment protection,...

This is a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural practice. The nature of the great cultural, social, political, environmental, and consumerist challenges facing the contemporary architect are explored, interpreted, and questioned, while drawing connections from architecture theory,...

Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding...

In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful selection of case studies, that the evolution of the architecture of new churches and chapels built on campuses reveals the shifting and...

This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory...

How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment--and its concern for ugliness--in architectural debates and their resulting social...

"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius"A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for students and professionals concerned with the reshaping...

Esther McCoy (1904-1989) is one of the twentieth century's foremost architecture historians, and one of the greatest chroniclers of the architecture of midcentury southern California. Her 1960 book Five California Architects has long been acknowledged as an indispensable classic, and as Reyner Banham famously...

Among the 18th century's most influential architectural designers and writers, Abraham Swan defined many conventions of English rococo detail. This reprint of an extremely rare and classic stylebook, compiled by the English architect nearly 250 years ago, provides outstanding examples of Palladian and Georgian...