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An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405180627)
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xA sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.
Author: Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman
ISBN-10: 1405180625
ISBN-13: 9781405180627
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011
- The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last fifty years
- surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics
- Offers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years
- Includes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years
Author: Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman
ISBN-10: 1405180625
ISBN-13: 9781405180627
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011
By Harry Francis Mallgrave
xHARRY FRANCIS MALLGRAVE is a professor of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and editor. His most recent publications include Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 (2005), the two volumes of Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005-8, volume 2 with co-editor Christina Contandriopoulos), and The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
DAVID GOODMAN is Studio Associate Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and at Boston Architectural College. His work has appeared in the journal Log, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern University Press publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook.
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