Architectural principles in the age of fraud : why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don't care how buildings look / Branko Mitrović.

Main entry:

Mitrovic, Branko, author.

Title & Author:

Architectural principles in the age of fraud : why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don't care how buildings look / Branko Mitrović.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, CA] : ORO Editions, [2022]
©2022

Description:

160 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-158) and index.
Chapter 1 Modernism p. 16 -- Chapter 2 Phenomenology p. 45 -- Chapter 3 Deconstruction p. 71 -- Chapter 4 The Abyss p. 101.

Summary:

"Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment. Discussions of architects and architectural academics are heavily loaded with theoretical ideas, concepts and views imported from the works of philosophers. At the same time this architectural employment of philosophy rarely goes beyond the tendency to mine philosophical works for ideas, words and phrases and use them, often without much understanding, in order to promote architectural agendas and embellish theoretical claims made by architects and academics.the book presents the history of this phenomenon for the past 100 years. It describes and analyses numerous, often funny, entertaining as well as embarrassing, examples of false intellectual pretence and pompous but incompetent philosophical posturing by prominent architects and architectural academics of the era and their efforts to bamboozle readers, colleagues and the general public. The book presents a powerful criticism of modernist views on architecture and argues that the rise of obfuscation and philosophical posturing among architects and architectural academics is a defensive strategy intended to draw attention away from the failure of Modernism in architecture." -- page [4] of cover.

ISBN:

1954081456 (paperback)
9781954081451 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture and philosophy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315504
Call No.: 315504
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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