Main entry:

Till, Jeremy.

Title & Author:

Architecture depends / Jeremy Till.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.

Description:

xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
Preface : Mess is the law -- Introduction : The elevator pitch -- I. Contingency : Deluded detachment : The paternoster ; Beaux-arts Mao ; 2B or not 2B? ; Purity is a myth -- A semblance of order : New labour Vitruvius ; Rogue objects ; Bauman's orders ; The ridding of contingency ; Counting sheep -- Coping with contingency : A balance of colossal forces ; The juggernaut ; Rorty's retreat ; Walking the girder ; Situated knowledge -- II. Time, space, and lo-fi architecture : Time of waste : Waste in transit ; Rubbish theory ; Time and waste -- Out of time : The terror of time ; From eternity to here ; Here and now ; Tampering with time -- In time : Le temps ; Thick time ; Dirty old time ; The unfinished ; Drawing time ; From noun to verb -- Slack space : Making space ; Hard space ; Social space ; Inauthentic space ; Slack space -- Lo-fi architecture : Elvis lives ; Exploding into reality ; Monstrous hybrids ; How they'll tell if your building is gay -- III. Architecture: a dependent profession : Architectural agency : Lost in action ; Self-control ; Left brain, right brain ; Remember I'm the bloody architect ; The crucible ; The problem of the problem ; Letting go -- Imperfect ethics : Bad ethics ; Phone ethics ; Social scales ; Codes of misconduct ; The ethics of responsibility -- Hope against hope : Gymnasts in the prison yard ; The flight to utopia ; Formative contexts ; Angels with dirty faces.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Architecture depends - on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans - at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780262012539 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262012537 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architectural practice.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Arkitektur och filosofi.
Arkitektur teori, filosofi.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261013
Call No.: BIB 191973
Status: Available