Main entry:

Atwood, Andrew, author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Not interesting : on the limits of criticism in architecture / text and images, Andrew Atwood ; editor, Ryan Roark.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, California] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, [2019]
©2019

Description:

229 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Attention -- Interesting -- Boring -- Confusing -- Comforting.
Projects : Blur building, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland / Diller + Scofidio -- Upper Lawn Pavilion, Wiltshire, England / Alison and Peter Smith -- Château de Montaillou [ruin], Montaillou, France -- Fontaine Avenue gas station, Charlottesville, VA / Atwood Architects -- Villa Snellman, Djursholm, Sweden / Erik Gunnar Asplund -- Iceberg, Macquarie Island, Australia -- Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen, The Netherlands / Foreign Office Architects -- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC / Gordon Bunshaft -- 2206 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles -- Sale house, Venice, CA / Johnston Marklee -- Danziger Studio, Los Angeles / Frank Gehry -- Library house, Tochigi, Japan / Shinichi Ogawa -- Sagarmatha, Chomolungma, Mount Everest, Mahalangur Himal, on the border of Nepal and Tibet -- Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography, Tottori, Japan / Shin Takamatsu -- Jackson Meadow, Marine on St Croix, MN / David Salmela -- Lanyon Quoit, Cornwall, England -- Multipurpose pavilion, Viana do Castelo, Portugal / Eduardo Souto de Moura -- Am Römerholz, Zurich Canton, Switzerland / Gigon Guyer, Winterthur -- Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, South Holland, The Netherlands / KAAN Architecten -- Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea / SO-IL -- Casa Klotz, Tongoy, Chile / Mathias Klotz -- Villa Schwob, Le Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland / Le Corbusier -- RAF Dome, Norwich, Norfolk, England -- Medical faculty housing, Leuven, Belgium / Lucien Kroll -- General Sherman, Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, CA -- Planthof Auditorium, Landquart, Switzerland / Valerio Olgiati -- St. Nicholas Church, Springdale, AR / Marlon Blackwell Architect -- Jones Hall, Houston, TX / William Wayne Caudill -- Casa invisible, Austria / Delugan Meissl Associated Architects -- Church of Saint George, Lalibela, Ethiopia -- House without qualities, Cologne, Germany / O.M. Ungers -- 5800 Colby Street, Oakland, CA -- OCMW Nevele, Nevele, Belgium / 51N4E -- La Congiunta, Giornico, Switzerland / Peter Markli -- Seaside Pavilion, Highlands, NJ / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects -- Page House, Berkeley, CA / Ajay Manthripragada -- Mesh Temporary Bar, Porto, Portugal / Fala Atelier -- A, B 1:2, Houston, TS / Michelle Jaja Chang -- Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood, CA / Zellnerplus -- San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, Province of Modena, Italy / Aldo Rossi -- Variations on the disco ball, outer space / Jason Payne -- Cemetery service building, Stockholm, Sweden / Petra Gipp -- The moon: Earth's orbit ~239,000 miles from Earth's center -- Monument of Fosse Ardeatine, Rome, Italy / M. Fiorentino, G. Perugini with N. Aprile, C. Calcaprine, A. Cardelli -- Radome of Pleumeur, Pleumeur-Bodou, Milton B. Punnett -- United States Tax Court Building, Washington, DC / Victor Lundy -- Studio Rémy Zaugg, Mulhouse, France / Herzog and de Meuron -- Hornet's Nest Superdome, Ottawa, Canada -- Seoul Iron Works, Seoul, South Korea -- S House, Okayama, Japan / SANAA -- Clark house, Charlottesville, VA / WG Clark -- Korean Presbyterian Church of Metropolitan Detroit, MI / Zago Architecture -- House no. 7, Columbia County, NY / MOS -- Signal box, Zurich, Switzerland / Gigon Guyer -- Armstrong house, Los Angeles / The LADG -- Santa Maria dos Anjos Chapel, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Lina Bo Bardi -- Garcia Marcos house, Madrid, Spain Alberto Campo Baeza -- Ark Nova, Matsushima / Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor -- Southlight Pavilion, Providence, RI / Ultramoderne with RISD Architecture students and James Barnes, AIA -- 1 Arsenal Marketplace, Watertown, MA -- The sun, center of the solar system, Milky Way Galaxy -- Blur building, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland / Diller + Scofidio.

Summary:

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 these other terms. The alternatives presented here are labelled as 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.

ISBN:

9781940743530 (paperback)
1940743532 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural criticism.
Architectural design.
Architecture Philosophy.
Critique d'architecture.
Design architectural.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural criticism.

Added entries:

Roark, Ryan, editor.

On the limits of criticism in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302958
Call No.: BIB 249147
Status: Available