Main entry:

Inscriptions (Harvard University. Graduate School of Design)

Title & Author:

Inscriptions : architecture before speech / [edited by] K. Michael Hays, Andrew Holder.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, [2021]
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2021]

Description:

609, ix pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
"A theory of contemporary architecture in 112 practices, 750 images, and 10 essays"--Spine.
Includes bibliographical references.
Inscriptions ; or, plurality by design / Andrew Holder -- Sites of inscriptions / Catherine Ingraham -- Pattern recognition : scanning inscriptions -- Transcendental originals -- Revealed originals -- Immanent originals -- Encountered originals / Stan Allen -- Archetype, ornament, and the subversion of architectural categories / Antoine Picon -- Screen graspers -- Transcendental originals -- Revealed originals -- Immanent originals -- Encountered originals / Lucia Allais -- Blanks, dents, casts, and other forms of negative architecture / Marrikka Trotter -- Next slide please : media history and the archive of everything architectural -- Transcendental originals -- Revealed originals -- Immanent originals -- Encountered originals / Sylvia Lavin -- Cotton Mather engraved and ungraved / Edward Eigen -- Finishing / JaJa Co -- Conjoined domesticities / Studio Sean Canty -- Infinite transformations / Erin Besler -- A loose collection / MILLIØNS -- Building material, building media / T+E+A+M -- Balancing act / Ensamble Studio -- Psst! / MALL -- In a shrunken field : a postconceptual position / First Office -- On offering / The LADG -- Proximities / PARA Project -- How to build a collage / Marshall Brown Projects -- Part & parcel / BairBalliet -- Notes on the creaturely (from the monstrous to the cute) / Phillip Denny -- Architecture's inscriptions : reading symptoms and enjoyments / K. Michael Hays.

Summary:

"In the wake of architecture's digital turn, contemporary practices have taken up archaic, even "prehistoric" models for the practice of architecture and how it might develop trenchant relationships to contemporary audiences. Underneath a wildly diverse and variable set of appearances, Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech reveals architectures that evince a stable and shared set of commitments to design as an act before speech-that is, they exceed the structural and semiotic propositions of the 20th century which have long served as a point of beginning for the imagination of architectural thought itself. Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech rethinks architecture at the moment just before it is presupposed as the material of an indeterminably meaningful mark, the moment just before text becomes speech and before architecture becomes building-the site of inscription"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781934510797 hardcover
1934510793 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Philosophy.
Architecture 21e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy

Added entries:

Hays, K. Michael, editor.
Holder, Andrew (Architect), editor.
Studio Lin, book designer.

Architecture before speech

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316587
Call No.: 316587
Copy: 1
Status: Available