Title & Author:

The invisible in architecture / editors, Ole Bouman and Roemer van Toorn.

Publication:

London : Academy Editions, 1994.

Description:

515 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Le style, c'est l'homme / Oswald Mathias Ungers -- On 'the invisible in architecture' : an environment behaviour studies perspective / Amos Rapoport -- Classical architecture is no saviour / Quinlan Terry -- Architecture for king client / Denise Scott Brown -- The need for space as a global problem : a manifesto / Ernest Mandel -- A modern view, or a view on the modern / Richard Rogers -- Visions' unfolding : architecture in the age of electronic media / Peter Eisenman -- Between omnipotence and aluminosis / Oriol Bohigas -- In search of ground / Kenneth Frampton -- Ecology : the invisible factor / Manfred Hegger -- Desperately seeking Siza / Alvaro Siza -- Myth and the fate of secularisation / Gianni Vattimo -- Architecture, development, memory / Hal Foster -- Ryebread architecture / Herman Hertzberger -- Our culture is in need of an art of exposure / Richard Sennett -- Tomorrow can take care of itself / Jean Nouvel -- The reason why I laugh or : the topsy-turvydom of post-modern architectural ethics / Charles Jencks -- Interpretation, mediation, narrative in architecture / Pietro Derossi -- Afterthoughts on architectural cynicism / Henri Raymond -- Architecture is too important to leave to the architects / Giancarlo de Carlo -- The invisible political economy of architectural production / David Harvey -- In the place of the public : observations of a traveller / Martha Rosler -- Architecture as evocation of concealed time / Francesco Venezia -- Architecture at Remdom : the blinkers that make the visionary / Rem Koolhaas -- Epilogue / Ole Bouman, Roemer van Toorn.
Translated from various European languages.

Summary:

Examines the work of architects such as Foster, Hasegawa, Bolles and Wilson, Venturi and Scott Brown, Frampton, Derossi and others, and the hidden facets of the architects' approach to their creations.

ISBN:

1854902857
9781854902856
(HB)
1854902057

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture and society.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société.
Architecture, Modern
Architekturtheorie
Bouwkunst.
Theorievorming.
Postmodernisme.
Architecture

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Bouman, Ole.
Toorn, Roemer van.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88621
Call No.: ID NA680.I593; ID:93-B2360
Status: Available