Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. This book asserts disciplinary knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education.
Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. This book asserts disciplinary knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nathaniel Coleman is Reader in History and Theory of Architecture at Newcastle University, UK. He previously taught in the US, worked as an architect in NY and Rome, and studied architecture at the IAUS and RISD, and Urban Design at CCNY. He researched his PhD at UPenn. A world leading scholar on architecture and utopias; Nathaniel leads design studios and theory seminars, focusing on reconstructing architecture through inventing anarchist spatial practices, concentrating on the limits and possibilities of architectural neo-avant-gardes. His books include Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings (2020); Lefebvre for Architects (Routledge, 2015); Utopias and Architecture (Routledge, 2005); and as editor, Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia (2011). Recent book chapters include, 'Making Sense of Fragments: Utopian Prospects for Architecture and Cities Now' (2024), and 'Rehabilitating Operative Criticism: The Return of Theory against Entrepreneurialism' (Routledge, 2022).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Introduction. The Good Enough Architect (Redux) Chapter 01. Firmness, Commodity, Delight? Chapter 02 Becoming Operative Chapter 03. Imagining & (Re)Making Chapter 04. Playing with Negative Dialectics Chapter 05. (Re)Mapping the Neo-Avant-Garde Chapter 06. Cognitive Mapping Chapter 07. Reconstructing Architecture Chapter 08. Recapitulations Index