The authors of these original essays - emerging architectural and cultural critics and practitioners - are engaged in the act of writing back at architecture, heralding the prospect of new conditions, possibilities, and purposes of practice. Tying their work together is the idea that architecture and architectural thinking are inextricably cultural in construction and effect. The essayists suggest that the once supposed autonomy of architecture is an illusion, at best a suspect quality, at worst a mask on a series of transactions and false stabilities that architecture ensures in a culture. Each writer depicts certain operations of power in architecture, aiming the line of a text against it or threading the written line through architecture. EssaysArchitecture Gender Philosophy, Ann Bergren • Minor Architectural Possibilities, Jennifer Bloomer • Intimacy and Spectacle, Beatriz Colomina • Inscribing the Subject of Modernism: The Posthumanist Theory of Ludwig Hilbersiemer, Michael Hays • The Burdens of Linearity, Catherine Ingraham • Forms of Irrationality, Jeffrey Kipnis • Spatial Narratives, Mark Rakatansky • Frank Lloyd Wright at the Midway, Robert Segrest • Do You See What I Mean? John Whiteman • Translations of Architecture: The Production of Babel, Mark Wigley • Body Troubles, Robert McAnulty • Architectural Theory is No Disciplines, Mark Linder • "Being and Nothinness," Doug Graf

Strategies in Architectural Thinking

Arts & Photography

Kipnis, Jeffrey

Whiteman, John

Architecture

Mit Pr

Essays on contemporary architecture that are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation.
Jeffrey Kipnis's writing, thinking, and teaching casts architecture as both an intellectual discourse and a lived, affective experience. His essays on contemporary architects are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation. In these eleven essays, written between 1990 and 2008, he considers projects, concepts, and buildings by some of the most recognized architects working today, with special attention to the productions of affect. He explores “intuition” in the work of Morphosis, “exhilaration” in Coop Himmelb(l)au, “freedom” in the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA, “magic” in Steven Holl's buildings, and “anxiety” in Rafael Moneo's writing about contemporary architecture. 
Kipnis's deft integration of art, critical theory, philosophy, pop culture, classical music, and science―what the volume's editor Alexander Maymind calls “ancillary material”―into a rigorous architectural theory and criticism makes A Question of Qualities an exemplar of a new way to write about architecture. It is also a distinct pleasure to read. Kipnis transcends the fractious intellectual climate in architecture, stepping outside the boundaries mandated by the vast specialized criteria that the discipline now claims to address. The essays in this volume demonstrate a style of writing that is not so much about architecture as it is an affect of architecture itself.

A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture (Writing Architecture)

The MIT Press

Would you dash headlong into deadly danger to find a possibly non-existent mystical tome at the direction of an incarcerated lunatic, to save a man you saw die, just because the lunatic is your boyfriend?Well, if you're Miss Phoebe Katonic, and the lunatic is Dano K. Dath, and you'll have a heroic squirrel at your side and a robot army at your command, of course you'll go! After all, there were reasons that you were in the Squirrel's Nest Home yourself a couple of years ago.If you're not already asking yourself, "Now, who is this daft squirrel canoe, and why would it want apoplectic cramps?", you soon will be!Join Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe in the world spanning, action packed sequel to The Blawnox Unpleasantness. Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe leave a trail of mayhem as they battle sinister foes across the globe in hopes of saving the lost librarian, Rudolph Barter, as Dano himself struggles to unpuzzle a terrible peril awaiting the planet. And join Dr. Alin Sicoh as he delves into The Adventures of Lightning Squirrel, the allegedly autobiographical tale penned by Dano, to unravel the mysteries that led to Dano's present and Phoebe's former psychoses.

Cosmic Redshifted Anthrocentric Worms: The Adventures of Lightning Squirrel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

iUniverse

The first collection of writing about one of the most famous American houses to be built in the 20th century. This fascinating guidebook to a house that many have studied but few have seen is also an exciting and important architectural document. Photos and line drawings throughout.

PHILIP JOHNSON: The Glass House

History

Americas

Pantheon

Since leaving a career in classical music to focus solely on architecture in 1979, Libeskind's highly unconventional approach to design has riveted the interest of architects and designers around the world. Perhaps the leading architectural theoretician of our time, Libeskind is now receiving numerous commissions for new buildings, including the Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The Victoria and Albert extension in London, and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Germany. His work has been the subject of more than 140 exhibitions and he travels and lectures constantly. This book on Libeskind's extraordinary work-eschews, in true Libeskind fashion, ,the traditional monograph format. Inspired by Libeskind's almost constant interaction with students and young architects and designers, the focus is on the underlying processes that drive Libeskind's work. By revealing for the first time in print his project proposals, and heavily drawing on unpublished letters, lauded speeches, and other writings--this book outlines the ideas behind his work and the underlying principles that created the rapid trajectory of Libeskind's career-from a young practitioner with an unconventional approach to a high-profile, often controversial architect and educator. Complimenting the brilliantly insightful textual material are drawings and full-color images of his models, finished projects, and projects in-process.

Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter

BETSKY, AARON

Libeskind, Daniel

Universe

Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School presents a detailed story of the design and construction of a single building, Diamond Ranch High School by avant-garde California architecture firm Morphosis. The volume opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, founder and principal of Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize. The interview outlines Mayne's working methods and chronicles his development as an architect from his years as a student through the realization of such influential projects as the widely published Crawford House. The presentation of Diamond Ranch High School, a state-of-the-art public school in Pomona, California, offers a level of detail not normally found in architectural monographs. Here every crucial architectural decision is extensively illustrated with conceptual sketches, key working drawings, and photographs of the project under construction and after completion.

Morphosis- Diamond Ranch High School: Source Books in Architecture

Mayne, Thom

Gannon, Todd

The Monacelli Press

The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to celebrity status with the completion of competition-winning designs for the Tate Museum, Bankside, in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. These works share a taste for glass, perforated metal, and other transparent materials. In bringing together the work of these diverse architects, "Light Construction" raised crucial questions about the role of materials, the nature of architectural effects, and the legacy of modernism. The second volume of the Source Books in Architecture series, The Light Construction Reader is an ambitious collection of thirty-eight essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this important 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 widely influential 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.

The Light Construction Reader (Source Books in Architecture)

* Internationally acclaimed architect, affectionally known as the 'old master of modern architecture' * Published to coincide with his ninetieth birthday, this features his most recent designs and projects * Designed in close collaboration with this often controversial character * Includes an exclusive interview with Philip Johnson and Frank Gehry on a recent collaboration * This volume in the Architectural Monographs series will be of particular appeal to architects, students of architecture, historians and general enthusiasts

Philip Johnson: Recent Work (Architectural Monographs No 44)

wiley

Architecture Interruptus focuses on one single structure designed by influential twentieth-century architect Le Corbusier: the church of Saint-Pierre in the small town of Firminy, France. The project was commissioned in the 1960s and designed by Le Corbusier with a young associate, José Oubrerie, who is now a professor at Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture and is finally bringing the project to fruition after years of delays and interruptions. The book features documentation of the building during both its early and later phases and draws together two important areas of Le Corbusier's work: his Modernist interpretations of ecclesiastical architecture (though the building will no longer function as a church) and his approach to town planning. The catalogue seeks to convey the experience of visiting the structure while also examining the creative interplay of Le Corbusier's and Oubrerie's ideas in its design.

Architecture Interruptus

Oubrerie, Jose

Eardley, Anthony

Wexner Center for the Arts

A new paradigm for the twenty-first-century museum from renowned architect Steven Holl. Museums have become the preeminent building type for the expression of new architectural ideas. Holl's expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art achieves a fusion of architecture with landscape that redefines the boundaries of the museum-going experience while creating one of the most unorthodox and breathtakingly beautiful examples of recent museum design. Holl's structure emerges from the landscape as five interconnected glass structures or "lenses," which both draw light into the building and serve to accentuate the museum's sculpture garden, providing both new spaces and angles of vision. Executed through close collaboration with museum curators and artists, the building achieves a dynamic and supportive relationship between art and architecture. Combining an in-depth critical assessment by the eminent architectural historian Jeffrey Kipnis, a generous selection of the architect's preliminary watercolor studies for the museum expansion, and breathtaking photography, this volume will be an essential reference for anyone concerned with the future of architecture and museum design.

Stone & Feather: Steven Holl Architects / Nelson-Atkins Museum Expansion

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