Foreword by Phyllis Lambert. Postscript by Peter Eisenman

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Arts & Photography

Lerup, Lars

Architecture

Mit Pr

The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis. And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. In an intellectually far-ranging yet intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is an exhilarating work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis—for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier.

After the City

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

An architect's view of the new metropolitan consciousness and the suburban metropolis as the future frontier.
The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought.Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis.And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. In an intellectually far-ranging yet intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is an exhilarating work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis―for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier.

After the City (The MIT Press)

The MIT Press

An installation project by Lars Lerup and Sohela Farokhi, room takes the typical notions of a room and stretches them towards new possibilities. Walls do not confine the room, but instead images of the city, the landscape, of industry and technology-is defined by frontiers of the imagination. The space within is rendered mobile and fluid, an "urban interior" further enhanced by "household vehicles" that replace static furniture. The installation at the Menil Collection in Houston instigated a conscious dialogue between society and technology and how the two are becoming securely intertwined within our sense of reality and imagination. Lerup, trained as an architect and engineer, is a professor and dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University, and Farokhi, an artist and painter, is the current resident artist. A unique publication that visually bridges the architectural and design world to the conceptual art world.

Room

Farokhi, Sohela

William K Stout Pub

This monograph examines 20 of Turnbull's residential projects at Sea Ranch, throughout California, and across the country. The striking b&amp;w photographs of the buildings convey his continued investigation into the vernacular vocabulary of everyday architecture and his faithfulness to the landscape throughout his 35-year career. The volume also features essays by Donlyn Lyndon (architecture, U. of California), Mitchell Schwarzer (architectural history and theory, California College of Arts and Crafts), and Mary Griffin, Turnbull's wife and architectural partner for the last 12 years of his life. Oversize: 10x13

William Turnbull, Jr.: Buildings in the Landscape

FRAMPTON, Kenneth

Ngo, Dung

Stout, William

Turnbull, William

Lyndon, Donlyn

Gregory, Daniel

Wagner, Martin

Routinely dismissed as ‘mere sprawl’, the suburban city is the black hole of recent urbanism, absorbing human energy and resources but seldom revealing the principles of its operation. For the past 20 years Lars Lerup has explored Houston as its prototype. In this book he broadly approaches this complex conurbation so as to develop a vocabulary to interpret its urban forms. Loved by its inhabitants, defined by huge potential and difficult problems, Lerup’s Houston is a test-case for twenty-first-century urbanism and our understanding of unregulated cities everywhere.

One Million Acres & No Zoning (Architectural Association: Exhibition Catalogues)

Sociology

AA Publications

Rethinking the fundamentals of planning Lars Lerup's conceptual explorations as a designerand thinker have been inspired by philosophers and artists fromFoucault to Beckett. Lerup's furniture designs elude consumer culture.They conform neither to what is commonly understood as useful nor towhat is typically regarded as necessary. They question the assumedfunctions of furniture and, at the same time, their assigned place inspace. His pieces interrogate their roles and positions and introduce adisturbing or at least disconcerting note to conventional floor plans. Thisautobiography of a design project is about rendering visible theconsumerism that is driving the current economically motivated expansionof our cities, and dealing with the consequences for the environmentand society.

The Life and Death of Objects: Autobiography of a Design Project

Birkhauser

This book gathers writings by Swedish American architect Lars Lerup, in which he sharply observes and analyzes the urban environment around him, then applies those findings to develop innovative theories about the modern city. Though the fourteen essays in the book were written as standalone pieces, together they cohere into a larger project that surveys Lerup’s thinking about identity, monumentality, and the relationship between nature and culture. He considers influential modern landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, the “dancing floors” of Rem Koolhaas’s Seattle Central Library, Herzog &amp; de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach, the character of urban icons like Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Dalian International Conference Center, and much more.

The Continuous City: Fourteen Essays on Architecture and Urbanization (Architecture at Rice)

Park Books

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