Main entry:

Agrest, Diana.

Title & Author:

Architecture from without : theoretical framings for a critical practice / Diana I. Agrest.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.

Description:

ix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On the Notion of Place -- Design Versus Non­-Design -- The Misfortunes of Theory -- Architectural Anagrams: The Symbolic Performance of Skyscrapers -- The City as a Place of Representation -- Notes on Film and Architecture -- Architecture of Mirror/Mirror of Architecture -- Framework for a Discourse on Representation -- Architecture from Without: Body, Logic, and Sex -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In Architecture from Without Agrest explores the symbolic dimension of architecture from the perspective of the modern city through a remarkable range of subjects - the relationship between architectural and urban ideologies, the symbolic performance of architecture in relation to the urban condition, the formal and ideological development of a building type, the relationship between architecture and other visual discourses, and the position of gender and body in Western architecture. Agrest focuses on the urban condition of architecture as a possibility for rethinking its own limits. Her understanding of architecture as ideology from the perspective of signification and culture opens up the question of the specificity of the architectural, unmasking functional determinism. -- from Amazon.com.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262011158
9780262011150
0262510677
9780262510677

Subject:

Symbolism in architecture.
Architectural design.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Design architectural.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architekturtheorie
Bouwkunst.
Steden.
Symboliek.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 70118
Call No.: ID:91-B930
Status: Available