Main entry:

Silvetti, Jorge, author, interviewee.

Title & Author:

Large, lasting & inevitable : Jorge Silvetti in dialogues and writings on architecture as a cultural practice / edited by Nicolás Delgado Alcega.

Publication:

Zürich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2024]
©2024

Description:

479 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Interlocutors: Mark Lee, Erika Naginski, Elisa Silva, Nader Tehrani, and Alfredo Thiermann"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Nicolás Delgado Alcega --Buenos Aires: Twelve Scenes from My Youth / Jorge Silvetti -- [1]. Berkeley -- Architecture: The Question of Method / with Alfredo Thiermann -- The Beauty of Shadows (1977) -- [2]. Harvard -- Architecture: The Emergence of Discourse / with Mark Lee -- On Realism in Architecture (1978) -- The Presence of the Past (1980) / with Rodolfo Machado -- Representation and Creativity in Architecture: The Pregnant Moment (1982) -- Perspective and the Envious Longing for the Renaissance (1984) -- [3]. Sicily -- Architecture: The Reconception of History / with Erika Naginski -- Interactive Realms: The Bridge of San Francesco and the Palazzo Sant'Elia (1992) -- The Bridge and the Palazzo: Urban Interventions and Social Representation (1992) -- [4]. South America -- Architecture: The Purview of the Social / with Elisa Silva -- Afterword to Unprecedented Realism (1995) / with Rodolfo Machado --The Muses Are Not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture (2003) -- Block That Metaphor! (2014) -- [5]. Boston -- Architecture: The Making of a Practice / with Nader Tehrani -- Vestiges of Cities Without Evil: The Case of the Territorio Guaraní (2014) / with Graciela Silvestri -- TYPE: Architecture's Elusive Obsession and the Rituals of an Impasse (2017) -- On Perspective, Anamorphosis, and Repositionings (2021) / with Nicolás Delgado Alcega -- Biographical Timeline.

Summary:

"Large, Lasting, & Inevitable offers a comprehensive overview of six decades of Jorge Silvetti's contributions to architectural thought. In a collection of archival writings paired with new dialogues between Silvetti and interlocutors from successive generations, the volume explores architecture's role as material culture and revisits the discipline's major transformations since the 1960s. Each set of writings is introduced by a conversation that contextualizes the cultural and intellectual forces shaping both Silvetti's work and the broader field. These dialogues illuminate pivotal moments in architectural history, highlight Silvetti's contributions as a practitioner and academic, and explore how architecture engages with historical, cultural, and social conditions."--Back cover.

ISBN:

3038603740
9783038603740

Subject:

Silvetti, Jorge.
Silvetti, Jorge Interviews.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.

Added entries:

Delgado Alcega, Nicolás, editor.

Large, lasting and inevitable
Jorge Silvetti in dialogues and writings on architecture as a cultural practice

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321496
Call No.: 321496
Copy: 1
Status: Available