Main entry:

Ritchie, Ian, 1947-

Title & Author:

(Well) connected architecture / Ian Ritchie.

Publication:

London : Academy Editions, 1994.

Description:

96 pages : illustrations, plans (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Architecture meets Pluralism -- Architecture expressing freedoms rather than equalities -- Architecture, ecology and global economics -- Professionalism, ethics and morality -- The Mediatisation of Architecture -- The influence of the architectural press: pre-empting experience -- Exploiting the press: cheap publishing and propaganda -- The inevitability of individualisation and architectural heroes -- Smokescreens, populism and the avant-garde -- Change -- Change in the rate of change -- Directions of change -- Collaboration -- Barriers -- professional -- How we collaborate -- Collaborating -- Limits of democracy: convergence out of necessity -- Learning from Limehouse community -- Nature and Proportion -- Chaos and complexity -- Geometry, hierarchy and scale -- Art -- Preconcepts -- Essence -- Concepts -- Science and Technology -- Scientific understanding -- Numbers -- Materials -- Light -- The wonder of glass -- transparency -- Human Purpose -- Architecture and economics -- Compliance, conflict and reason -- The known and unknown user -- Function -- Form follows desire -- More from less -- Use and beauty -- Construction -- Triangle of confidence -- Skills -- Nuts and bolts -- Relationships and reality with industry -- Authenticity in Architecture -- Head, heart and hands -- Art, science and construction for human purpose -- eg, Herne-Sodingen Academy, Germany.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket (c. 1).
Library c. 2: Inscription to Cedric Price from Ian Ritchie, dated 10/07/94.

Summary:

An insight into the work of Ian Richie Architects, this text also provides an exploration into the design process and the wider forces which exist and determine the pluralism of contemporary architecture. A range of projects illustrate different aspects encountered by art and architecture.

ISBN:

1854902946 (cased)
9781854902948 (cased)
185490292X (pbk.)
9781854902924 (pbk.)
3433024782
9783433024782

Subject:

Ian Ritchie Architects (Firm)
Ian Ritchie Architects.
Rice Francis Ritchie.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture Europe 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Europe
Architecture Modernism

Added entries:

Cedric Price Library
Cedric Price fonds
Provenance. Ritchie, Ian, 1947- Inscription.

Connected architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81613
Call No.: ID NA680.R5; ID:95-B2738
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main price 267661
Call No.: BIB 70029
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available