Title & Author:
The building / edited by José Aragüez.
Publication:
Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Muller Publishers, [2016]
©2016
Description:
414 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Notes:
"Princeton School of Architecture, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : The building's discursive building -- 1. The building : 1.1. Elements : Empire of platforms / Penelope Dean : House NA, Tokyo / SOu Fujimoto Architects -- In the thick of it / Gabriela García de Cortázar : Wolf house, San Pedro, Chile / Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos -- Those unsightly windows / Francisco González de Canales : Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, Galicia, Spain / Alvaro Siza Vieira -- Biblio-theque / Costandis Kizis : Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Tokyo / Sou Fujimoto Architects -- Landscape of knowledge / Rafi Segal : National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel / Rafi Segal -- Response: Geometrico ordinaire / Peg Rawes -- 1.2 Wholes : Radical solitudes / Stan Allen : Castilla and León Museum of Contemporary Art, León, Spain / Mansilla + Tuñón Architects -- Building primitive / Costandis Kizis : Truffle house, Costa da Morte, Spain / Ensamble Studio -- Building riddles / John McMorrough : EXPO 2000 Dutch Pavilion, Hannover, Germany / MVRDV -- The super-urban house / Etien Santiago : Suburban American house, generic locations, USA / Generic architect -- Having it all ways / Aaron White : Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, Wellesley, USA / Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects -- Response: The question concerning wholes / Francisco González de Canales -- 1.3. Content : The overlook / Mark Campbell : The Overlook Hotel, Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England / Stanley Kubrick & Roy Walker -- "Out-of-focus impression": the uncertain typology of Louvre-Lens : Musée du Louvre-Les, Pas-de Calais, France / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, Tim Culbert + Celia Imry/Imry Culbert, and Catherine Mosbach -- Positive objects / Sylvia Lavin : Danziger Studio, Los Angeles / Frank Gehry -- Profoundly boring architecture / Bryan E. Norwood : Nasher Sculpture Garden and Art Museum, Dallas / Renzo Piano Building Workshop -- Soft boundaries / Alexandra Vougia : Moriyama house, Tokyo / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA -- Response: Broken buildings, building content / María González Pendás -- 1.4. Referents : Bubbly drinks and heavy machinery / Gabriela García de Cortázar -- New Luxor Theater, Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Bolles + Wilson -- The architecture of lightness / Sophia Psarra -- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA -- Some thoughts on architectural sameness / Amanda Reeser Lawrence : The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architecture -- Urban villa / Enrique Walker : Villa Schor, Brussels, Belgium / Office KGDVS -- Ambivalence as agency / Aaron White : Alfred Lerner Hall Student Center, New York / Bernard Tschumi Architects -- Response: #Buildings #Referents #BodyofWork (a response in 1416 words and 9786 characters) / Michael Meredith -- 1.5. Context : The building is the city is the building / Marta Caldeira : L'illa Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain / Rafael Moneo and Manuel de Solà-Morales -- Re-visioning the Wexner Center : Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus / Peter Eisenman with Richard Trott -- Circulation system / Joan Ockman : Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris / Frank Gehry -- A reflection or a freestanding object? / Emmanouil Stavrakakis : The New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece / Bernard Tschumi Architects -- Architectural iconolatry / Alexandra Vougia : Dubai Renaissance, Dubai, UAE / OMA, Rem Koolhaas -- Response: Context and scale / Mary McLeod -- 1.6. Technology : Symbolic solids: or, The contract of the architect / Vera Bühlmann : Platonic solids, subdivided columns, digital grotesque, siteless / Michael Hansmeyer with Benjamin Dillenburger -- Big data are for adding, not subtracting / Mario Carpo : Digital grotesque, siteless / Michael Hansmeyer & Benjamin Dillenburger -- Sendai Mediatheque: three critical levels / Juan Antonio Cortés : Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan / Toyo Ito & Associates -- The environment of knowledge / Marc Frochaux : Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne, Switzerland / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA -- Roller coaster construction revisited / Alejandro Zaera-Polo : Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, Yokohama, Japan / Foreign Office Architects (FOA) -- Response: The "The" / Michael Young -- 2. Critical essays on The building : Building, building / Andrew Benjamin -- Buildings, or how to let go of forgetting / Dora Epstein Jones -- Materiality of figure, figures of materiality / K. Michael Hays -- Untitled theories of building objects / Stephen Phillips -- What buildings know / Philip Ursprung -- 3. The building in architectural education : Buildings and the stabilities of architecture / Anale Andraos -- To build or not to build, in dialogue with the editor / Luis Fernández-Galiano -- On building / Mónica Ponce de León -- Building concepts (why schools?) -- Means and ends / Sarah Whiting -- Afterword / Mark Cousins.
Summary:
For nearly fifty years, the building has primarily been understood as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving the building as a central discursive category in its own right. Contributors, including academics and architects from world-renowned institutions, aim to recast architectural design thinking as a domain of knowledge by turning the object into a primary concern. As a result, 'The Building' offers insightful discussions of key architectural structures conceived in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A. over the last three decades. In exploring these structures through a number of meta-disciplinary questions, this book suggests ways in which buildings can trigger conceptual frameworks whose influence extends well beyond architecture. A balanced text-to-image ratio caters to a variety of readers in both practice and academia.
ISBN:
3037784989
9783037784983
Subject:
Architecture Philosophy.
Buildings.
Constructions.
architecture (object genre)
Architecture, Modern 20th century
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Added entries:
Aragüez, José, editor.
José, Aragüez editor
Holdings:
Location: Library main 293977
Call No.: BIB 239251
Status: Available
