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In this profoundly original book Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periodsone literary and one architecturalBloomer uses the allegorical strategies she finds in James Joyces Finnegans Wake to analyze three works of Giambattista Piranesi Campo Marzio Collegio and the Carceri Bloomer argues that architecture is a system of representation with signifying possibilities that go beyond the merely symbolicBloomer reads the texts and ideas of Joyce and Piranesi against one another further illuminating them with insights from myth religion linguistics film theory nursery rhymes and personal anecdotes as well as from poststructuralist Marxist and feminist criticism Combining the strategies of Finnegans Wake which Joyce himself called architectural with conventional strategies of architectural thinking Bloomer creates a new way of thinking architecturally that is not dominated by linear models and that appropriates ideas parts and theoretical frameworks from many other disciplines Demonstrating her argument by dramatic example Bloomers treatiselike Joyces wordplay and Piranesis play with visual representationoffers the pleasure of ongoing discovery
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Deconstruction and the Visual Arts brings together a series of new essays by scholars of aesthetics art history and criticism film television and architecture Working with the ideas of French philosopher Jacques Derrida the essays explore the full range of his analyses They are modelled on the variety of critical approaches that he has encouraged from critiques of the foundations of our thinking and disciplinary demarcation to creative and experimental readings of visual texts Representing some of the most innovative thinking in the various arts disciplines these contributions offer important challenges to existing disciplinary orthodoxies Also included in this volume is a long interview with Derrida published here for the first time
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Paperny examines the evolution of architecture in Russia during the Stalinist period Defining two conflicting trendsCulture One and Culture Twothat have alternately prevailed in Russian culture the author argues that the shift away from the architectural avantgarde of the 1920s was not entirely the result of Stalins will Rather he demonstrates how the aesthetic choices of Stalin and his architects were conditioned by the prevailing cultural mechanisms of the 1930s and 40s Combining academic precision with engaging narrative Paperny leads the reader through the remarkable trajectory of architectural and cultural transformation that marked a pivotal moment of Russias history
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Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture without requiring that it be interesting This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms boring confusing and comforting Along with interesting these three terms make up the four chapters of the book Each chapter introduces its topic through an analysis of a different image which serves to unpack the specific character of each term and its relationship to architecture In addition to text the book contains over 50 case studies using 100 drawings and images These are presented in parallel to the text and show what architecture may look like through the lens of these other terms
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For the first time this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only coexist but complement each other in the assessment of built works As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide from environmental sustainability to social cultural and economic activism this book examines the roles of perceived and measured quality in architecture By exploring in tandem both subjective traditional architectural criticism and environmental design and performance evaluation and its objective evaluation criteria the book argues that both methodologies and outcomes can achieve a comprehensive assessment of quality in architecture Curated by a global editorial team the book includes Contributions from international architects and critics based in the UK USA Brazil France Qatar Egypt New Zealand China Japan and Germany Global case studies which illustrate both perspectives addressed by the book and comparative analyses of the findings A six part organization which includes introductions and conclusions from the editors to help guide the reader and further illuminate the contributions By presenting a systematic approach to assessing building performance design professionals will learn how to improve building design and performance with major stakeholders in mind especially end usersoccupants
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Munich notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement is the site of Gavriel Rosenfelds stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich Rosenfeld shows with the aid of a wealth of photographs how the citys urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorshipIn the second half of the twentieth century the German peoples struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism has dramatically shaped nearly all dimensions of their political social and cultural life The area of urban development and the built environment little explored until now offers visible evidence of the struggle By examining the ways in which the people of Munich reconstructed the ruins of their historic buildings created new works of architecture dealt with surviving Nazi buildings and erected new monuments to commemorate the horrors of the recent past Rosenfeld identifies a spectrum of competing memories of the Nazi experienceMunichs postwar development was the subject of constant controversy pitting representatives of contending aesthetic and mnemonic positions against one another in the heated battle to shape the citys urban form Examining the debates between traditionalists modernists postmodernists and critical preservationists Rosenfeld shows that the memory of Nazism in Munich has never been repressed but has rather been defined by constant dissension and evolution On balance however he concludes that Munich came to embody in its urban form a conservative view of the past that was inclined to diminish local responsibility for the Third Reich
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Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years Since the early 1950s Alan Colquhouns criticism and theory have acted as a conscience to a generation of architects His rigor and conceptual clarity have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice This collection of 17 of his essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades comprising a virtual theory of Modernism in architecture In his earliest essays Colquhoun concentrated on themes that for him comprised the modernist attitude in architecture language typology and the structure of form His stance since then has consistently been to try to relate these issues to current practice and to analyze the nature of architectural expression in relation to culture An Oppositions Book
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One of the most important collections of essays in architectural criticism published in the last decade Architecture Criticism Ideologysparked a debate on the context of the critique of ideologyThis book contains essays by Manfredo Tafuri Frederic Jameson TomasLlorens Demetri Porphyrios and Alan Colquhoun The essays examine therole of ideology in architectural criticism and politics a subject thatuntil now has received little attention in contemporary Americanarchitectural discourse
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The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of art writing as a fresh mode of criticism which aims to put the art first Following this definition SiteWriting The Architecture of Art Criticism puts the sites of the critics engagement with art first The book puts into shape what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and sitespecificity enter the writing of art criticism The sites explored are the material emotional political and conceptual settings of the artworks construction exhibition and documentation as well as those remembered dreamed and imagined Through five different spatial configurations both psychic and architectural SiteWriting explores artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne AlAni Elina Brotherus Nathan Coley Tracey Emin Christina Iglesias and DoHo Suh aiming to adapt such psychoanalytic ways of working as free association and conjectural interpretation to art criticism
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Munich notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement is the site of Gavriel Rosenfelds stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich Rosenfeld shows with the aid of a wealth of photographs how the citys urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorshipIn the second half of the twentieth century the German peoples struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism has dramatically shaped nearly all dimensions of their political social and cultural life The area of urban development and the built environment little explored until now offers visible evidence of the struggle By examining the ways in which the people of Munich reconstructed the ruins of their historic buildings created new works of architecture dealt with surviving Nazi buildings and erected new monuments to commemorate the horrors of the recent past Rosenfeld identifies a spectrum of competing memories of the Nazi experienceMunichs postwar development was the subject of constant controversy pitting representatives of contending aesthetic and mnemonic positions against one another in the heated battle to shape the citys urban form Examining the debates between traditionalists modernists postmodernists and critical preservationists Rosenfeld shows that the memory of Nazism in Munich has never been repressed but has rather been defined by constant dissension and evolution On balance however he concludes that Munich came to embody in its urban form a conservative view of the past that was inclined to diminish local responsibility for the Third Reich
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Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years Since the early 1950s Alan Colquhouns criticism and theory have acted as a conscience to a generation of architects His rigor and conceptual clarity have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice This collection of 17 of his essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades comprising a virtual theory of Modernism in architecture In his earliest essays Colquhoun concentrated on themes that for him comprised the modernist attitude in architecture language typology and the structure of form His stance since then has consistently been to try to relate these issues to current practice and to analyze the nature of architectural expression in relation to culture An Oppositions Book
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For the first time this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only coexist but complement each other in the assessment of built works As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide from environmental sustainability to social cultural and economic activism this book examines the roles of perceived and measured quality in architecture By exploring in tandem both subjective traditional architectural criticism and environmental design and performance evaluation and its objective evaluation criteria the book argues that both methodologies and outcomes can achieve a comprehensive assessment of quality in architecture Curated by a global editorial team the book includes Contributions from international architects and critics based in the UK USA Brazil France Qatar Egypt New Zealand China Japan and Germany Global case studies which illustrate both perspectives addressed by the book and comparative analyses of the findings A six part organization which includes introductions and conclusions from the editors to help guide the reader and further illuminate the contributions By presenting a systematic approach to assessing building performance design professionals will learn how to improve building design and performance with major stakeholders in mind especially end usersoccupants
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The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of art writing as a fresh mode of criticism which aims to put the art first Following this definition SiteWriting The Architecture of Art Criticism puts the sites of the critics engagement with art first The book puts into shape what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and sitespecificity enter the writing of art criticism The sites explored are the material emotional political and conceptual settings of the artworks construction exhibition and documentation as well as those remembered dreamed and imagined Through five different spatial configurations both psychic and architectural SiteWriting explores artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne AlAni Elina Brotherus Nathan Coley Tracey Emin Christina Iglesias and DoHo Suh aiming to adapt such psychoanalytic ways of working as free association and conjectural interpretation to art criticism
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