Title & Author:

Judging architectural value / William S. Saunders, editor ; introduction by Michael Benedikt.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

Description:

xxxi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Harvard design magazine readers ; 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Learning from St. Louis : the Arch, the Canon, and Bourdieu / Hélène Lipstadt -- What goes unnoticed : on the canonical quality of the PSFS Building / David Leatherbarrow -- Canon and anti-canon : on the fall and rise of the A + A / Timothy M. Rohan -- Canons in cross fire : on the importance of critical modernism / Charles Jencks -- In the shadow of a giant : on the consequences of canonization / Daniel Willis -- Eyesore or art? On Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg project / John Beardsley -- Toward an architecture of humility : on the value of experience / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Why are some buildings more interesting than others? / Kurt W. Forster -- Questions of value : an interview with Kenneth Frampton / William S. Saunders and Nancy Levinson -- Most architecture should be modest : on architecture and aesthetic judgment / Roger Scruton -- From taste to judgment : multiple criteria in the evaluation of architecture / William S. Saunders -- Once again by the Pacific : returning to sea ranch / Tim Culvahouse and Lisa Findley -- The absence of presence : the Knickerbocker residence and the fate of nonelitist architecture / Diane Ghirardo.

Summary:

These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing values influence opinions about it. In the opening essay, Benedikt makes an argument for the role of architects in the delineation of value in architecture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780816650101 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816650101 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816650118 (pb ; alk. paper)
081665011X (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architectural criticism.
Architectural design.
Architecture Philosophy.
Critique d'architecture.
Design architectural.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural criticism.
Ästhetik
Ästhetischer Wert
Ästhetisches Urteil
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Architekturtheorie
Bewertung
Philosophie
Werturteil
Arkitekturkritik.
Arkitektur och filosofi.

Added entries:

Saunders, William S.
Harvard design magazine readers ; 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253457
Call No.: BIB 183240
Status: Available