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Architecture School
The first comprehensive history of architecture education in North America, offering a chronological overview and a topical lexicon. Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later that North American universities began to offer formal architectural training; the first program was established at MIT in 1865. Today most architects receive their training within an acade...
Architourism
This sumptuously illustrated book looks at why the world's most interesting buildings are becoming the hottest destinations for today's travelers. In the last few decades architecture has become a major focus for travelers, rather than merely a part of a larger itinerary. Illustrated with nearly one hundred color photographs, this series of provocative essays and contributions by leading scholars, critics, architects, and artists explores the role of architecture in the contemporary tourist imagination. From Mont Saint Michel and the Taj Mahal to Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum and the Blur Building in Switzerland's Lake Neuchâtel, the authors focus on how certain iconic buildings have found their way into the cultural consciousness. At the same time they offer insights as to why other buildings, such as Minnesota's Mall of America and the faux architecture of Las Vegas, have become integral to their regions' tourist economy-and postulate how this success will influence architecture of the future. ILLUSTRATIONS: 116 colour 25 b/w
Architecture Culture, 1943-1968
Architecture Culture 1943-1968 is an anthology of seventy-four international documents with critical commentary. Both a sourcebook and a companion history of architecture, the volume traces the evolution of modern architecture from the midst of the Second World War to the student revolts of May '68. Many of the selections are from hard-to-find sources, and some are translated into English for the first time. Readers will discover a rich and illuminating array of material from a period crucial to understanding the present time.
The Pragmatist Imagination
Thirty-three leading thinkers discuss topics such as place and citizenship, technology and its impact on perception, and pragmatist aesthetics.
Architecture, Criticism, Ideology
One of the most important collections of essays in architectural criticism published in the last decade, "Architecture Criticism Ideology"sparked a debate on the context of the critique of ideology. This book contains essays by Manfredo Tafuri, Frederic Jameson, TomasLlorens, Demetri Porphyrios, and Alan Colquhoun. The essays examine therole of ideology in architectural criticism and politics, a subject that, until now, has received little attention in contemporary Americanarchitectural discourse.
Rafael Vinoly
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The Architecture of the City
Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.
The Political Unconscious of Architecture
Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that 'there is nothing that is not social and historical - indeed, that everything is "in the last analysis" political'. Bringing together a team of leading scholars including Slavoj Zizek, Joan Ockman, Jane Rendell, and Kojin Karatani, this book critically examines the important contribution made by Jameson to the radical critique of architecture over this period, highlighting its continued importance to contemporary architecture discourse. Jameson's notion of the 'political unconscious' represents o...
Architectu-Re-Production
Introduction : on architecture, production and reproduction / Beatriz Colomina -- The building and the book in Câesar Daly's Revue gâenâerale de l'architecture / Hâeláene Lipstadt -- L'Espirit nouveau : architecture and publicitâe / Beatriz Colomina -- The misfortunes of the image : Melnikov in Paris, 1925 (architecture and photography) / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Fear of glass : the Barcelona pavilion / Jose Quetglas -- Reproduction and negation : the cognitive project of the avant-garde / K. Michael Hays -- Resurrecting the avant-garde : the history and program of Oppositions / Joan Ockman -- The narration of architecture / Pierre-Alain Croset -- Response to Michael Hays / Alan Colquhoun.
The Diagrams of Architecture
Since the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Diagrams of Architecture is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram. Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading in...
