Title & Author:

Crucial words : conditions for contemporary architecture / edited by Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.

Description:

206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Crucial Words -- Architects -- Atmosphere -- Body -- City Branding -- Competitions -- Computer -- Concept -- Corporate -- Desire -- Doers -- Europe -- Everyday -- Experiment -- Formalism -- Future -- Globalization -- Humanism -- Landscape -- Memory -- Modernity -- Nature -- Nordic -- Organic -- Ornament -- Photography -- Slit -- Technology -- Tradition -- Transformation -- Wheelchair -- Why.

Summary:

The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and singular and partly global and universal. Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. What are the pivotal themes? Gert Wing??rdh and Rasmus W??rn, Sweden??'s most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists such as Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, and Wilfried Wang. A special highlight is the text by Nobel laureate Ohran Pamuk.

ISBN:

3764386452
9783764386450

Subject:

Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie.
Architettura teorie sec. 20.-21.
Architektur Aufsatzsammlung.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Wingårdh, Gert, 1951-
Wærn, Rasmus.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256828
Call No.: NA2560 .C78 2008
Status: Available