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In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author(...)
Housing problems: writing and architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud and Heidegger
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In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house—an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish such a synthesis through the concept of Bildung, the book traces the destabilization of this symmetry between house and self in Gothic literature and in narratives surrounding the founding of psychoanalysis. The interest in architecture holds open the tension between the generalizing figures of architectonics and the singular quality of housing features. These continue to mark theoretical thinking even as they dissolve and withdraw, as in Heidegger's "house of Being."
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
Architectural Theory
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul(...)
Artificial light : a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other architectural fictions
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul Shepheard, Roger Connah, and Rebecca Solnit, "Artificial light" is the beautifully written and visually engaging debut of a dynamic new voice in the world of architectural criticism. Keith Mitnick is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate-level studios and seminars in architectural criticism, and a founding principal of Mitnick Roddier Hicks.
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Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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October 2007, Princeton
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource(...)
February 2008, London, New York
Supercrit 2 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde.(...)
April 2008, Rennes
Les monuments historiques de 1940 à 1959: administration, architecture, urbanisme
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde. Dans ce projet, les monuments anciens ont un rôle de tout premier plan. Il ne s'agit pas seulement, en effet, de relever les ruines, mais aussi d'inventer une nouvelle modernité architecturale et urbaine appuyée sur la tradition et le génie artistique propre à la France. Le service des Monuments historiques se rapproche des services de l'urbanisme et de la reconstruction afin d'inventer le nouveau cadre bâti de la France régénérée. Juin l944-Mai 1945: nouvelles destructions et Libération. A la réflexion théorique succède l'action, dans un pays exsangue. Commence le grand chantier de la reconstruction, elles désillusions: crédits insuffisants, rupture du consensus avec les responsables de la construction. Refusant l'habituelle opposition entre architecture et patrimoine, cet ouvrage envisage le monument historique comme un élément à part entière de l'histoire de l'architecture. Il retrace son itinéraire politique et social autant que son destin matériel dans une période agitée, caractérisée par une quantité d'interventions absolument sans précédent.
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Comment comprendre l'architecture? Comment rendre compte de ce qui est à la fois expérience perceptive, projet artistique, décision d'urbanisme et choix politique? " Le plan et le détail " expose la philosophie d'un nouvel esprit architectural, déconstruit et remodèle les convictions et les notions sur lesquelles se fonde le travail de l'architecte : la valeur du plan,(...)
Le plan et le détail : une philosophie de l'architecture et de la ville
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Comment comprendre l'architecture? Comment rendre compte de ce qui est à la fois expérience perceptive, projet artistique, décision d'urbanisme et choix politique? " Le plan et le détail " expose la philosophie d'un nouvel esprit architectural, déconstruit et remodèle les convictions et les notions sur lesquelles se fonde le travail de l'architecte : la valeur du plan, la construction du cadre de l'habitat, l'insertion du bâti dans le tissu urbain, la relation de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, le rationalisme technique, l'invention du détail. L'auteur permet de repenser les problèmes généraux de l'espace urbain aujourd'hui - dans un dialogue serré et fécond avec de grands créateurs du XX°siècle, et avec leurs oeuvres : Loos et Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, et Rem Koolhaas. Fortement documenté, et illustré (52 illustrations et photographies noir et blanc; 8 planches couleurs).
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Architecte urbaniste, Nicolas Michelin prend la parole et témoigne du rôle de l’architecte face aux enjeux majeurs de la société aujourd’hui. En prise avec l’actualité - crise des banlieues, développement durable -, mais aussi avec les conditions d’exercice de l’architecture - contrainte des programmes, standardisation des typologies, poids des normes, carcan des(...)
Avis : propos sur l'architecture, la ville, l'environnement
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Architecte urbaniste, Nicolas Michelin prend la parole et témoigne du rôle de l’architecte face aux enjeux majeurs de la société aujourd’hui. En prise avec l’actualité - crise des banlieues, développement durable -, mais aussi avec les conditions d’exercice de l’architecture - contrainte des programmes, standardisation des typologies, poids des normes, carcan des budgets - les textes réunis ici sont l’expression de préoccupations et de réflexions sur le rôle de l’architecte aujourd’hui. Avant-propos de Catherine Pierre.
Architectural Theory
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Collection of lectures, presented at various occasions over the last twenty years, wherein Antonio Monestiroli argues for the need of a theory of design based on a unitary viewpoint on architecture in a time when such a viewpoint seems to be lost.
The metope and the triglyph : nine lectures in architecture
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Collection of lectures, presented at various occasions over the last twenty years, wherein Antonio Monestiroli argues for the need of a theory of design based on a unitary viewpoint on architecture in a time when such a viewpoint seems to be lost.
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In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented. This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays(...)
Architectural regionalism : collected writings on place, identity, modernity, and tradition
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In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented. This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by important critics, historians, and architects such as Kenneth Frampton, Lewis Mumford, Sigfried Giedion, and Alan Colquhoun, Architectural Regionalism represents the history of regionalist thinking in architecture from the early twentieth century to today.
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May 2007, New York
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