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The 3rd volume in "Writing Architecture Series".
Differences: topographies of contemporary architecture
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The 3rd volume in "Writing Architecture Series".
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November 1996
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Inside architecture
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Vittorio Gregotti's Inside Architecture is his first major work to be translated into English, examining theories of modernism and tradition and considering the architect's practice and cultural issues involved in creating models and working with ideas and buildings. Quite scholarly, but worth the effort for any studying architectural development.
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September 1996, Cambridge, London
Inside architecture
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Vittorio Gregotti's Inside Architecture is his first major work to be translated into English, examining theories of modernism and tradition and considering the architect's practice and cultural issues involved in creating models and working with ideas and buildings. Quite scholarly, but worth the effort for any studying architectural development.
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In this volume the author investigates the predominance of interdisciplinary discourse, exploring topics that range from public art to homelessness to the repression feminism in critical theories of public space.
Evictions : art and spatial politics
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In this volume the author investigates the predominance of interdisciplinary discourse, exploring topics that range from public art to homelessness to the repression feminism in critical theories of public space.
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October 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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Return of the real
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The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two.
Return of the real
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The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two.
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October 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
The architect reconstructing her practice
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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April 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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November 1994, Montréal
Chora 1: intervals in the philosophy of architecture
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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November 1994, Montréal
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that(...)
White walls, designer dresses : the fashioning of modern architecture
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing -- the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' endlessly repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. Indeed, Wigley asserts, the very intensity of these rejections is a symptom of how deeply they are embedded in the world of clothing. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. "White Walls, Designer Dresses" shows how this seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.
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December 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
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Socrates' ancestor
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility(...)
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October 1993, Cambridge London
Socrates' ancestor
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade - the ptera or "wings" - that made Greek temples Greek. Who was Socrates' ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors were also the first Western philosophers: the pre-Socratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greek city-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out the connections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent of speculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground in the amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that they had to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor in Knossos. Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance of reductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological, and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest written record of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression in Anaximander's built work - a "cosmic model" that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of the world, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of early Greek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then moves forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored for the meaning of "city."
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Le sens du lieu
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Cet ouvrage est issu des Actes du colloque "Le sens du lieu : topos, logos, aisthèsis" organisé par l'École d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand et le Collège International de Philosophie. Il contient des textes d'une vingtaine d'auteurs dont Jean-Louis Déotte, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Alain Petit, Alain Roger et Chris Younès.
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November 1996, Bruxelles
Le sens du lieu
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Cet ouvrage est issu des Actes du colloque "Le sens du lieu : topos, logos, aisthèsis" organisé par l'École d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand et le Collège International de Philosophie. Il contient des textes d'une vingtaine d'auteurs dont Jean-Louis Déotte, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Alain Petit, Alain Roger et Chris Younès.
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November 1996, Bruxelles
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James(...)
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Reprinted in 2003.
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September 1997, London
Architectural Theory