Title & Author:

The new architectural pragmatism / edited by William S. Saunders.

Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007.

Description:

pages cm.

Series:

Harvard design magazine readers ; 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Accept, resist, or inflect? Architecture and contemporary capitalism / William S. Saunders -- A scientific autobiography, 1982-2004 : Madrid, Harvard, OMA, the AA, Yokohama, the globe / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Notes around the Doppler effect and other moods of modernism / Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting -- Starck speaks : politics, pleasure, and play / Philippe Starck -- P.S./P.C. : on " Starck speaks" / K. Michael Hays -- No more dreams? The passion for reality in recent Dutch architecture...and its limitations / Roemer van Toorn -- No more tabula rasa : progressive architectural practices in England / Lucy Bullivant -- Not unlike life itself : landscape strategy now / James Corner -- On not being governed / Dave Hickey -- Stocktaking 2004 : questions about the present and future of design / Stan Allen, Hal Foster, and Kenneth Frampton -- "Criticality" and its discontents / George Baird -- Critical of what? Toward a utopian realism / Reinhold Martin -- Design will save the world! On Bruce Mau's Massive change and the mediatization of culture / Robert Levit and Evonne Levy -- The muses are not amused : pandemonium in the house of architecture / Jorge Silvetti.

Summary:

This title collects the most provocative, penetrating, and influential attempts by leading theorists and practitioners in the field to define what architectural practice should dominate at the beginning of the 21st century.

ISBN:

9780816652631 (hbk.)
0816652635 (hbk.)
0816652643 (pbk.)
9780816652648 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Architectural criticism.
Architecture et société.
Architecture postmoderne.
Critique d'architecture.
Postmodern.
architectural criticism.

Added entries:

Saunders, William S.
Harvard design magazine readers ; 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254489
Call No.: BIB 184528
Status: Available