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Perfect Acts of Architecture
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2001, New York
Perfect Acts of Architecture
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption of "paper architecture" of incomparable beauty and depth. Perfect Acts of Architecture identifies the preeminent achievements of five architects working during that turbulent period: Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Bernard Tschumi. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
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September 2001, New York
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Presenting a range of original perspectives on the theoretical work of Canadian architect George Baird, this publication constructs for the first time a critical framework of his contribution to architectural discourse over a period of more than 50 years. The influence of his writing on more recent scholarly work is also addressed. The book includes previously unpublished(...)
The Architect and the public: On George Baird's contribution to architecture
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Presenting a range of original perspectives on the theoretical work of Canadian architect George Baird, this publication constructs for the first time a critical framework of his contribution to architectural discourse over a period of more than 50 years. The influence of his writing on more recent scholarly work is also addressed. The book includes previously unpublished essays and interviews with key protagonists, among them Peter Eisenman and Kenneth Frampton, who have enjoyed intellectual exchanges with Baird. In total, eighteen contributors converge on Baird’s complex career as an example of the architect’s public engagement in contemporary society.
Architectural Theory
Log 23 / Fall 2011
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt Simone Brott, Esprit futur Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants Mario Carpo, Digital Style Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman,(...)
Log 23 / Fall 2011
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt Simone Brott, Esprit futur Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants Mario Carpo, Digital Style Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, and Thom Mayne Roy Lichtenstein, Entablature Greg Lynn, Chemical Architecture Andrea Phillips, English Pastoral Antoine Picon, When Parametricism Tries to Reconnect with Vitruvius Mike Silver, Many From One Paul Virilio, The Insecurity of History Andrew Witt, Design Hacking: The Machinery of Visual Combinatorics Plus: On gentrification . . . On time capsules . . . On listening . . . On an exhibition . . .
Magazines
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The ideas of architects are usually conveyed by their buildings. Vladimir Belogolovsky takes a different approach in his new work. The New York-based author gives a detailed picture of contemporary architects – through words. Interviews with: David Adjaye, Will Alsop, Alejandro Aravena, Shigeru Ban, Elizabeth Diller, Winka Dubbeldam, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster,(...)
Conversations with architects: in the age of celebrity
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The ideas of architects are usually conveyed by their buildings. Vladimir Belogolovsky takes a different approach in his new work. The New York-based author gives a detailed picture of contemporary architects – through words. Interviews with: David Adjaye, Will Alsop, Alejandro Aravena, Shigeru Ban, Elizabeth Diller, Winka Dubbeldam, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libeskind, Jürgen Mayer H., Giancarlo Mazzanti, Richard Meier, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Glenn Murcutt, Gregg Pasquarelli, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Wolf Prix, Kevin Roche, Robert Stern, Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Rafael Viñoly, Alexandro Zaera-Polo.
Architectural Theory
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex(...)
Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America.
Current Exhibitions
Log 7 winter / spring 2006
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Summary : Richard Anderson tires of meaning; Marie Aquilino talks with Amos Gitaï; Pier Vittorio Aureli and Manuel Orazi project the project; Jean-Louis Cohen traces the histories of the banlieues; William Drenttel requests negative rendering; Peter Eisenman interrogates iconic architecture; Luis Fernández-Galiano sees futility in the stars; John Kaliski critiques The(...)
Log 7 winter / spring 2006
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Summary : Richard Anderson tires of meaning; Marie Aquilino talks with Amos Gitaï; Pier Vittorio Aureli and Manuel Orazi project the project; Jean-Louis Cohen traces the histories of the banlieues; William Drenttel requests negative rendering; Peter Eisenman interrogates iconic architecture; Luis Fernández-Galiano sees futility in the stars; John Kaliski critiques The Italian Job(s); Sabir Khan reports from Pakistan Reinhold Martin votes for choice; Gabriele Mastrigli sizes up bigness; Gordon Matta-Clark draws a break-in; Deborah Richmond turns up the cool; Julie Rose finds burqinis at the beach; Paul Virilio outlines the finite; Eyal Weizman takes on the military-theoretical complex; Mirko Zardini foretells the fall of the edifice. PLUS: Tunnels, totems, mud brick, and more...
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Log 15 is a slice through the present, featuring the current work and thinking of some of today’s leading architectural historians and theorists: Barry Bergdoll, Mario Carpo, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Kurt Forster, Mark Jarzombek, Irving Lavin, Sylvia Lavin, Mark Wigley, and Mirko Zardini. Assembled to honor Phyllis Lambert on her(...)
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March 2009, New York
Log 15, winter 2009: observations on architecture and the contemporary city
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Log 15 is a slice through the present, featuring the current work and thinking of some of today’s leading architectural historians and theorists: Barry Bergdoll, Mario Carpo, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Kurt Forster, Mark Jarzombek, Irving Lavin, Sylvia Lavin, Mark Wigley, and Mirko Zardini. Assembled to honor Phyllis Lambert on her 80th birthday, these essays range from an architectural and archaeological reading of Chris Marker’s post-apocalyptic film La Jetée to Dravidian architecture in India; from Gordon Matta-Clark’s erasure of architecture to the persistence of asphalt; from the influence of Andy Warhol on ambient architecture past and present to the house in the museum and the museum in the house.
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Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical(...)
Newscapes : territories of complexity
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Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical designs and the realization. Author Paola Gregory examines this interplay between buildings and landscapes present in today´s architecture scene, illustrating her analysis with exciting examples including the ecological landscapes of James Wines and Greg Lynn, the virtual environments of Marcos Novak and Nox, buildings by Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito which actively incorporate passers-by and surroundings by means of new media.
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The second volume of the source books in architecture series, "The light construction reader" is a collection of 38 essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this exhibition. Included here are essays by exhibition curator Terence Riley as well as noted architects and critics such as Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, and Robin Evans. The complete(...)
The light construction reader / source books in architecture 2
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The second volume of the source books in architecture series, "The light construction reader" is a collection of 38 essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this exhibition. Included here are essays by exhibition curator Terence Riley as well as noted architects and critics such as Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, and Robin Evans. The complete transcripts of the Light Construction Symposium, held at Columbia University in conjunction with the exhibition, are also included. Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky’s essay 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal' is presented here for the first time together with its lesser-known sequel of 1971. Also represented are Italo Calvino, Jacques Derrida, Jean Starobinski, and many others.
Materials and Lighting
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While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades saw emerge a more refined and intellectual disciplinary framework that eventually metamorphosed into the highly theory-focused moment of the 'postmodern'. Colin Frederick Rowe(...)
Reckoning with Colin Rowe: ten architects take position
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While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades saw emerge a more refined and intellectual disciplinary framework that eventually metamorphosed into the highly theory-focused moment of the 'postmodern'. Colin Frederick Rowe (1920 - 1999) was a leader of this epistemic shift due to his aptitude to connect his historical and philosophical erudition to the visual analysis of architecture. This book unites ten different perspectives from architects whose lives and ideas intersected with Rowe’s, including: Robert Maxwell, Anthony Vidler, Peter Eisenman, O. Mathias Ungers, Léon Krier, Rem Koolhaas, Alan Colquhoun, Robert Slutzky, Bernhard Hoesli and Bernard Tschumi.
Architectural Theory