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Red Studio
A new collection from award winning poet, Murray Silverstein. In a transformation as surprising as it is persuasive, Matisse's famed painting The Red Studio becomes the red studio of the heart in Murray Silverstein's superb third collection. There's room in this studio for loss, doubt, and humor. But above all, there's room for love--love for family, for learning, and for life. Silverstein's voice is masterly without being imperious, inquiring without being coy, and generous in its acceptance of human limits. Whether addressing the dead or a yellow colander in his kitchen, emptiness or the moon, Keats or a fallen fig tree, Silverstein shifts his perspective from his family to the world, from his love for language to his love for the arts. His tone shifts, too, from the colloquial to the formal, as easily and naturally as the next breath. Silverstein opens his book with this appeal: "lash me to love, music of my late years; against the spectre of its vanishing, lash me to love--" His appeal is granted. These are poems of love from a heart unafraid to admit life in all its pain and beauty.
Patterns of Home
This book brings the timeless lessons of residential design to homeowners who seek inspiration and direction in the design or remodelling of their homes.
A Pattern Language
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, T...
Any Old Wolf
Poetry. Murray Silverstein's first collection of poems revels in the inscrutable world, in the joy of words, and in the essential human task of carving those words to fit that world. Silverstein's lifelong career as an architect subtly imbues poem after poem; the reader has a powerful sense of the author building each poem: its foundation dug and poured, its lines framed, finished, finally lived in: the miracle of raw materials-word and deed-brought to life. Part memoir, part prayer, part light-footed dance, Silverstein's poetry shows metrical control, subtle internal rhyme, and Hopkins's prosodic beats: the diction of the day unfurled. It plays not simply with metaphor but with the idea of metaphor, and pulls the reader in: to discovery, to the sway of language, and to the great and complex machinery of what Silverstein calls "the factories of desire."
A Pattern Language
Two hundred and fifty-three archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.
Modern Architectural Theory
Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism.
Master of Leaves
Poetry. The range of topics in Murray Silverstein's MASTER OF LEAVES--from the mind of God to a baby's colic, from the Higgs boson to a breakfast peach, from Shakespeare and Joyce to Mother Goose--astonishes and delights. The voice that moves through this expanse is as at home in the philosophical as it is in the colloquial. And there is so much music here, from the moving meditation on Monet at the beginning to the stunning final sequence on dark and light that gives the book its title. These are poems that celebrate the multiple blessings of life and time.
Architectural Intelligence
Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity. In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and influenced digital design practices from the late 1980s to the present day. Alexander, long before his famous 1977 book A Pattern Language, used computation and str...
Pattern
As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960s. Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture?
