Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Barbara Penner

Forty Ways to Think About Architecture (eBook, PDF)

Architectural History and Theory Today

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Produktbeschreibung

How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today. The inspiration for this project is the work of Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), who has been internationally renowned as the UK's leading academic in the discipline for 40 years. Forty's many publications, notably Objects of Desire (1986), Words and Buildings (2000) and Concrete and Culture (2012), have been crucial to opening up new approaches to architectural history and theory and have helped to establish entirely new areas of study. His teaching at The Bartlett has enthused a new generation about the exciting possibilities of architectural history and theory as a field. This collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. Concise and engaging entries reflect on architecture from a range of perspectives. Contributors include eminent historians and theorists from elsewhere - such as Jean-Louis Cohen, Briony Fer, Hilde Heynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny Sparke and Anthony Vidler - as well as Forty's colleagues from the Bartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint. Forty Ways to Think about Architecture also features contributions from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics and architectural writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking and Thomas Weaver. Many of the contributors are former students of Adrian Forty. Through these diverse essays, readers are encouraged to think about how architectural history and theory relates to their own research and design practices, thus using the work of Adrian Forty as a catalyst for fresh and innovative thinking about architecture as a subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118822579
• Artikelnr.: 43825571

Autorenporträt

Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is also Director of Architectural History & Theory and the Vice-Dean of Communications for the wider Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.

Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he acts as the Vice-Dean of Research for the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.

Barbara Penner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she is Programme Director for both the PhD Architectural History & Theory and BSc Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 8
Adrian Forty, Future Imperfect: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered
at UCL in December 2000 17
1 How To Write About Buildings? 33
Andrew Saint
2 Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page 36
Anne Hultzsch
3 Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism 43
Anthony Vidler
4 Homely Affinities 48
Barbara Penner
5 On Regeneration 54
Ben Campkin
6 Fresh Reactions to St Paul's Cathedral 60
Brian Stater
7 Photographs and Buildings (mainly) 65
Briony Fer
8 Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion 72
David Dunster
9 Carte Blanche? 77
Davide Deriu
10 Buildings: A Reader's Guide 83
Eleanor Young
11 The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory 89
Griselda Pollock
12 The Most Modern Material Of Them All ... 95
Hilde Heynen
13 'Things that People Cannot Anticipate': Skateboarding at the Southbank
Centre 100
Iain Borden
14 'Truth, Love, Life': Building with Language in Prague Castle under
Masaryk 106
Irena ?antovská Murray
15 Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics 112
Jan Birksted
16 During Breakfast 119
Jane Rendell
17 [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire 127
Jean-Louis Cohen
18 Words and Buildings 134
Jeremy Melvin
19 Slow Hard Look 140
Jeremy Till
20 Topography, Biography and Architecture 144
Joe Kerr
21 Of Character and Concrete: The Historian's Material 150
John Macarthur
22 Spectres of Marx in City X 155
Jonathan Charley
23 History by Design 163
Jonathan Hill
24 Angel Place: A Way in to Dickens's London 168
Kester Rattenbury
25 On 'Sachlichkeit': Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter
174
Laurent Stalder
26 Double Vision 180
Mark Swenarton
27 Modernism 185
Mary Mcleod
28 Yes, And We Have No Dentists 193
Michael Edwards
29 Reyner Banham's Hat 197
Murray Fraser
30 Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies 204
Peg Rawes
31 Objects 210
Penny Sparke
32 Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912-1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett 214
Sir Peter Hall
33 Things Ungrand 220
Sarah Wigglesworth
34 'Minor' Spaces in Officers' Bungalows of Colonial Bengal 224
Tania Sengupta
35 Memoirs of Adrian 235
Thomas Weaver
36 All That Glitters 239
Tom Dyckhoff
37 A Response to Words and Buildings 243
Tony Fretton
38 Material Culture: 'Manchester of the East', Le Corbusier, Eames and
Indian Jeans 249
Victoria Perry
39 Mr Mumford's Neighbourhood 254
William Menking
40 Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a
Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism 259
Yat Ming Loo
Author Biographies 266
Index 275
Photo credits 280