The new architectural pragmatism : a Harvard design magazine reader
William S. Saunders, editor
Bok · Engelsk · 2007
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| Utgitt | Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press , cop. 2007
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| Omfang | XVII, 201 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : accept, resist, or inflect? Architecture and contemporary capitalism / William S. Saunders -- 1. A scientific autobiography, 1982-2004 : Madrid, Harvard, OMA, the AA, Yokahama, the Globe / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- 2. Notes around the Doppler effect and other moods of modernism / Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting -- 3. Starck speaks : politics, pleasure, and play / Philippe Starck -- 4. P.S./P.C : on "Starck speaks" / K. Michael Hays -- 5. No more dreams? The passion for reality in recent Dutch architecture ... and its limitations / Roemer van Toorn -- 6. No more tabula rasa : progressive architectural practice in England / Lucy Bullivant -- 7. Not unlike life itself : landscape strategy now / James Corner -- 8. On not being governed / Dave Hickey -- 9. Stocktaking 2004 : questions about the present and future of design / Stan Allen, Hal Foster, and Kenneth Frampton -- 10. "Criticality" and its discontents / George Baird -- 11. Critical to what? Towards a utopian realism / Reinhold Martin -- 12. Design will save the world! On Bruce Mau's Massive Change and the mediatization of culture / Robert Levit and Evonne Levy -- 13. The muses are not amused : pandemonium in the house of architecture / Jorge Silvetti. - In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying transformation of the skylines of Shanghai and Dubai, public awareness of architecture and design has perhaps never been higher. At the same time, architecture is undergoing an identity crisis as it confronts fundamental issues: the effect of digital technology on design, the pervasive impact of global capitalism, and the decision to embrace or resist popular media and taste. Written in the aftermath of modernism's utopian impulse and postmodernism's detached playfulness, the essays in The New Architectural Pragmatism express and critique a new spirit of cultural and political engagement with contemporary society. Interrogating the architect's social responsibility, the contributors deliberate about how much we should ask of architecture and suggest that in the coming century architecture must be at once flexible and robust, responsive and self-directed
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| ISBN | 0-8166-5263-5. - 0-8166-5264-3. - 978-0-8166-5263-1. - 978-0-8166-5264-8
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