Title & Author:

From crisis to crisis : debates on why architecture criticism matters today / editors, Nasrin Seraji, Sony Devabhaktuni, Xiaoxuan Lu.

Publication:

[Hong Kong] : Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, 2019.
New York : Actar D., Inc.

Description:

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Criticism today / Eunice Seng. Out of control : from crises to Krisis / Françoise Fromonot ; The role of architectural criticism in post-revolution Iran / Kamran Afshar Naderi ; The blog as online research laboratory / Graham Brenton McKay ; Debate / Eunice Seng (moderator), Françoise Fromonot, Kamran Afshar Naderi, Graham Brenton McKay -- History's role in contemporary criticism : history and criticism / Cole Roskam. Architecture criticism in postwar Japan / Seng Kuan ; On the decay of the art of discrimination and description in architectural writing / Anthony Acciavatti ; Debate / Cole Roskam (moderator), Seng Kuan, Anthony Acciavatti -- Criticism in China : 'from defeat to defeat', 'from victory to victory' / Tao Zhu ; (The crisis of) Chinese whispers : consumption, assemblage aesthetics, and the globalisation of meaning in China / Chris Brisbin ; Cultivating a critical culture : the interplay of time + architecture and contemporary Chinese architecture / Wenjun Zhi, Guanghui Ding ; Debate / Tao Zhu (moderator), Chris Brisbin, Wenjun Zhi -- Reading writing and architectural education / Sony Devabhaktuni. Writing a new discipline / Jonathan Massey ; Who designs the design? / Angelika Schnell ; Debate / Sony Devabhaktuni (moderator), Jonathan Massey, Angelika Schnell -- Closing debate. Lost in translation : the dilemma of Esperanto / Xiaoxuan Lu ; Debate / Cecilia Chu, Xiaoxuan Lu, Eunice Seng (moderators); Anthony Acciavatti, Chris Brisbin, Françoise Fromonot, Seng Kuan, Jonathan Massey, Graham Brenton McKay, Kamran Afshar Naderi, Angelika Schnell, Nasrin Seraji, Wenjun Zhi.

Summary:

This book examines how reading, writing and criticism can address the urgent issues faced by architecture as it is practiced, taught and studied today. The publication is drawn from an international public symposium organized in the spring of 2017 by the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.0'From Crisis to Crisis' reflects Hong Kong?s ongoing transformation from a gateway between China and the world, to a regional hub opening up a new milieu for the cultural, economic, and intellectual resources of Asia. The HKU Department of Architecture is part of this ongoing transformation, attracting thinkers from Asia, North America, Australia and Europe to engage in critical, relevant dialogues. The publication reflects this diversity and is characterized by its flexibility, contingency, vitality, and open-endedness.

ISBN:

9781948765053 (paperback)
1948765055 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural criticism Congresses.
Architectural writing Congresses.
Critique d'architecture Congrès.
Architecture Art d'écrire Congrès.
Architectural criticism
Architectural writing
Architekturkritik
Architekturtheorie

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference Papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Seraji-Bozorgzad, Nasrine, 1957- editor.
Devabhaktuni, Sony, editor.
Lu, Xiaoxuan, editor.
University of Hong Kong. Department of Architecture, publisher.
University of Hong Kong, sponsor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306041
Call No.: BIB 251775
Status: Available