Title & Author:

The education of the architect : historiography, urbanism, and the growth of architectural knowledge : essays presented to Stanford Anderson on his sixty-second birthday / edited by Martha Pollak.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.

Description:

xv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-455) and index.
1. Frank Lloyd Wright's "The Art and Craft of the Machine": Text and Context / Joseph M. Siry -- 2. Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and the Bay Region Style / Gail Fenske -- 3. Modern Architectural Ideology in Cold War America / Mitchell Schwarzer -- 4. Educated Evolution: Darwinism, Design Education, and American Influence in Central Europe, 1898-1918 / Akos Moravanszky -- 5. The Dutch Reception of Frank Lloyd Wright: An Overview / Maristella Casciato -- 6. Against Style: Bruno Taut's Pedagogical Program in Turkey, 1936-1938 / Sibel Bozdogan -- 7. Meditations on the Impossibility of a History of Modernity: Seeing Beyond Art's History / Mark Jarzombek -- 8. The History of Louis Hautecoeur: Classical Architecture and Vichy Politics / Hilary Ballon -- 9. Between Formalism and Deconstruction: Hans Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Aesthetics of Reception / Danilo Udovicki-Selb
10. Forms of Understanding: Thematic Knowledge and the Modernist Legacy / N. John Habraken -- 11. Learning from "Mendicant America": H. P. Berlage's Encounter with the American City / Nancy Stieber -- 12. Surveillance and Spectacle in Fascist Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo -- 13. The Formation of the Neo-Mamluk Style in Modern Egypt / Nasser Rabbat -- 14. Between Tradition and Innovation: Place Louis XV in Paris / Carlo Olmo -- 15. Architecture, Ethics, and the Person / Royston Landau -- 16. The Conditions of Criticism / Micha Bandini -- 17. History's History / Lawrence B. Anderson -- 18. Learning from Ekalavya / Charles Correa -- Publications by Stanford Anderson: Selected Bibliography.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The authors of these eighteen essays have all been deeply influenced by the philosophy of architecture developed by Stanford Anderson, through his writings and through the teaching program of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, which he and Henry Millon founded at MIT over twenty years ago. This "school" of architectural thought views architecture as a world of inquiry and as a discipline anchored in the epistemological bases of contemporary philosophy, especially the philosophy of science." "Whether historians or architects (and several have trained in both areas), the essayists all share the belief that contemporary concerns about architecture affect the way history is constructed. Because they view architecture as a body of knowledge evolving over time, they have resisted the wholesale espousal and rejection of modernism that has often polarized the examination and practice of architecture in the second half of this century."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0262161648 (hardbound ; alk. paper)
9780262161640 (hardbound ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Anderson, Stanford.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Historiography.
City planning History 20th century.
Architecture Philosophy.
Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architecture Philosophie.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Anderson, Stanford.
Pollak, Martha D.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134610
Call No.: ID NA680.E28; ID:97-B502
Status: Available