Main entry:

Pae, Hyŏng-min.

Title & Author:

The portfolio and the diagram : architecture, discourse, and modernity in America / Hyungmin Pai.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

xix, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The portfolio and academic discourse: formation and crisis : Discourse, mass architecture, and the academic profession : The discursive formation of mass architecture and the academic profession ; The portfolio and the architectural journal -- The portfolio and the academic discipline : Seeing, reading, and drawing: the discursive practice of the portfolio ; Composition and the paradox of academic theory ; Planning and the "theory of the plan" -- The crisis of the academic profession : The architectural profession in the 1910s: crisis and response ; Business, efficiency, and functional planning -- Part II. The search for a new discipline : The fragmentation of the academic discipline : The changing ideas of composition and the demise of the analytique ; Form versus function: the debate of the 1920s -- Frederick Ackerman, Lewis Mumford, and the predicament of form : Frederick Ackerman and the logic of regressive rationality ; Lewis Mumford and the search for authentic form -- The cognitive project of the architectural journals : The consumerist project of American architect ; The cognitive project of Architectural record -- Part III. The discourse of the diagram : Scientific management and the discourse of the diagram : Scientific management and the birth of the functional diagram ; From scientific management to architecture: the discursive formation of the architectural diagram -- New Genres and new formation s : Architectural graphic standards and the modern reference manual ; The reconfiguration of the architectural journal -- The dislocation of the architectural diagram : The diagram as plan, the plan as diagram ; The displacements of photographic discourse -- Epilogue: the instrument of modern architecture.

Summary:

This is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the images of architectural publications. Architects do not use the photographs of magazines in the same way that 19th-century architects mobilized the drawings in the grand folios.

ISBN:

0262162067 (alk. paper)
9780262162067 (alk. paper)
0585444986 (electronic) bk
9780585444987 (electronic)
9780262661959 (paperback)
0262661950 (paperback)

Subject:

Communication in architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture Philosophy.
Communication en architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Recherche États-Unis Périodiques.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architecture
Communication in architecture
United States

Form/genre:

History
Theses.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224081
Call No.: NA2584 .P35 2002
Status: Available

Location: Library main 224082
Call No.: NA2584 .P35 2002
Status: Available