Architecture Itself And Other Postmodernist Myths

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : Spector Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3959052286

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Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths by Sylvia Lavin Pdf

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects? and architecture?s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself.00Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture, Postmodern
ISBN : 1927071607

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Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects by Sylvia Lavin Pdf

Author : K. Michael Hays,Andrew Holder
Publisher : Harvard Graduate School of Design
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1934510793

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Inscriptions by K. Michael Hays,Andrew Holder Pdf

In the wake of architecture's digital turn, contemporary practices have taken up archaic, even "prehistoric," models for the practice of architecture and how it might develop trenchant relationships to contemporary audiences. Underneath a wildly diverse and variable set of appearances, Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech reveals architectures that evince a stable and shared set of commitments to design as an act before speech--that is, they exceed the structural and semiotic propositions of the twentieth century which have long served as a point of beginning for the imagination of architectural thought itself. Featuring essays from Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen, Phillip Denny, Edward Eigen, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, and Marrikka Trotter, Inscriptions rethinks architecture at the moment just before it is presupposed as the material of an indeterminably meaningful mark, the moment just before text becomes speech and before architecture becomes building--the site of inscription.

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3959052294

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Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths by Sylvia Lavin Pdf

Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Fritz Umbach,Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456251

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Public Housing Myths by Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Fritz Umbach,Lawrence J. Vale Pdf

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing. With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally but also does so in a revisionist and provocative manner. With students in mind, Public Housing Myths is organized thematically around popular preconceptions and myths about the policies surrounding big city public housing, the places themselves, and the people who call them home. The authors challenge narratives of inevitable decline, architectural determinism, and rampant criminality that have shaped earlier accounts and still dominate public perception.

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262622134

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Form Follows Libido by Sylvia Lavin Pdf

How modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious. "Eight million Americans a year cool their heels in psychiatric waiting rooms. Design can help lower this nervous overhead."—Richard Neutra, 1954 Sylvia Lavin's Form Follows Libido argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of engaging essays weaving through the designs and writings of this Vienna-born, California-based architect, Lavin discovers in Neutra a sustained and poignant psychoanalytic reflection set in the context of a burgeoning psychoanalytic culture in America. Lavin shows that Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fueled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline. Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to unleash midcentury architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816611734

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The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard Pdf

In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Kate Nesbitt
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156898054X

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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: by Kate Nesbitt Pdf

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years. A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism. By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of great value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and the general public, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a critical introduction to each essay. The list of authors in Theorizing a New Agenda reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Sol-Morales Rubi, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on all the contributors are also included.

Author : Stylianos Giamarelos
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781800081338

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Resisting Postmodern Architecture by Stylianos Giamarelos Pdf

Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.

Author : Reinier de Graaf
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674982765

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Four Walls and a Roof by Reinier de Graaf Pdf

Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.

Author : Terence Riley,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870700049

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The Changing of the Avant-garde by Terence Riley,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Featuring 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic and utopian architectural drawings.

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986-07-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262610469

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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss Pdf

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Author : Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aesthetics, French
ISBN : 0892362359

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The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières Pdf

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134986262

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A Poetics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon Pdf

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Paolo Euron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004409231

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Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work by Paolo Euron Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development in Western culture.