Title & Author:

Anything / edited by Cynthia C. Davidson.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Anyone Corp. ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.

Description:

283 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Anything is the tenth in a series of ten planned volumes documenting the annual international, cross-disciplinary conferences being sponsored by the Anyone Corporation to investigate the condition of architecture at the end of the millennium"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Anybodies -- [Pt. 1] Thing as abstraction -- On passing time in space, airports, and urban phenomena / Bernard Tschumi -- From metaphor to allegory / Fredric Jameson -- The loneliness of the long distant future / Romi Khosla -- Scale and span in a global digital world / Saskia Sassen -- Architecture as interface / Hani Rashid -- Discussion 1 -- [Pt. 2] Thing as object -- Space for change / Wolf Prix -- Open-ended skill: Six points / Osamu Ishiyama -- Remote control / Mark C. Taylor -- Stress / Bruce Mau -- Walking on water / Daniel Buren -- Discussion 2 -- [Pt. 3] Thing as material -- In the mood for architecture / Jeffrey Kipnis -- The thingness of light / Steven Holl -- Radiant synthetic effects / Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos -- Thinking of Gadamer's floor / Jacques Herzog -- The thing called architecture / Rafael Moneo -- Discussion 3 -- [Pt. 4] Thing as feeling -- Blur/babble / Elizabeth Diller -- Thing as feeling: Emotion pictures / Giuliana Bruno -- A concise genealogy of the thing / Akira Asada, Arata Isozaki -- Making strange / Zaha Hadid -- Anything intervention / Gary Hill, Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson -- Discussion 4 -- [Pt. 5] Thing as obsession -- The regime of YC$ / Rem Koolhaas -- Information obsession: Multiscreen architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Obsession /= fascination / Jean Nouvel -- A flexible architecture / Germano Celant -- Refugee republic / Ingo Günther -- The new generic / Greg Lynn -- Discussion 5 -- [Pt. 6] Thing as idea -- From anything to biothing / Anthony Vidler -- Surface inscriptions / Ignasi de Solà-Morales -- The thing / Elizabeth Grosz -- Anything but / Hubert Damisch -- Thing as other / Kojin Karatani -- Making the cut / Peter Eisenman -- Discussion 6 -- Letters to Anything -- Afterword / Cynthia C. Davidson.

ISBN:

0262541300 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262541305 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy Congresses.
Architecture, Postmodern Congresses.
Architecture Philosophie Congrès.
Architecture postmoderne Congrès.
Architecture Philosophy
Architecture, Postmodern
Bouwkunst.
Kunstbeschouwing.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.

Form/genre:

Conference Papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Davidson, Cynthia C.
Anyone Corporation.
Anything Conference (2000 : New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218244
Call No.: NA2500 .A633 2001
Status: Available