Who says what architecture is? / Eric Owen Moss ; edited by Julianna Morais.

Main entry:

Moss, Eric Owen, 1943-

Title & Author:

Who says what architecture is? / Eric Owen Moss ; edited by Julianna Morais.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : SCI-Arc Press, [2007]

Description:

98 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction -- The Penelope Theory of Architecture -- Settings -- 11 You Can't Pick Your Birthday: Michael Maltzan -- 13 The Architecture Free Zone -- 18 Pump Up the River -- 19 Surreal LA: Richard Meier -- 21 The SCI-Arc Situation / The LA Situation -- 28 Welcome Back to the Real Forbidden City: Hitoshi Abe -- Hypotheses -- 33 Will We Build Our Cities on the Slopes of Vesuvius?: Jean-Louis Cohen -- 35 Delimiting Architecture's Subject Matter: Chris Burden -- 37 Solitary Architecture: Michele Saee -- 39 The Daedalus Ethos: Steven Holl -- 41 Who Rules the Machine?: Wes Jones -- 43 Architecture of the Up-To-Date: Bill MacDonald -- Characters -- 47 Urban History: Ed Soja -- 49 The Real Forbidden City: Thom Mayne/Morphosis -- 54 A Tale of Two Cities: Stanley Saitowitz -- 56 Incomplete In Perpetuity: Tom Gilmore -- 57 Lexicon: Charles Jencks -- 59 The Woods Archetype: Lebbeus Woods -- 62 Revolution: Odile Decq -- 64 The Psychologist: Shigeru Ban -- 66 Tactility: Toshiko Mori -- 68 The Indoorsman: Aaron Betsky -- 70 Multiple Choice Career: Michael Sorkin -- 72 The Builder: Frederick Fisher -- 73 The Stanley Doctrine: Stanley Tigerman -- 76 Crooked Timber: Mack Scoggin and Merrill Elam -- 78 Double-Headed Whole: Ricardo and Victor Legoretta -- 80 Trajan versus Nero: Preston Scott Cohen -- 82 "Untimely" Urban Meditation: Vittorio Lampugnani -- 84 An(other) Pro Forma: Johnson Fain -- Reflections -- 87 9.11: RoTo Architecture -- 89 Origins: The World Trade Center -- 94 The Road is Better than the Inn: Thom Mayne.

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ISBN:

0976007940 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780976007944 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture.

Added entries:

Morais, Julianna.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325799
Call No.: 325799
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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