Title & Author:

The light construction reader / Todd Gannon, editor.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2002.

Description:

447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Source books in architecture ; 2

Notes:
A collection of 28 essays that explore themes and issues surrounding the 1995 exhibition "Light construction", held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Jeffrey Kipnis -- Introduction / Todd Gannon -- "Light construction" from Light construction / Terence Riley -- "Buildings that hide and reveal" from the New York Times (1995) / Herbert Muschamp -- "Reflections on transparency: an interview with Terence Riley" from Any 9 (1994) / Cynthia Davidson -- Light Construction Symposium from Columbia D #6 (1995): Introduction / Bernard Tschumi -- Plates 1-60 -- "Transparency: literal and phenomenal, part 1" from Perspecta 8 (1964) / Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky -- "Transparency: literal and phenomenal, part 2" from Perspecta 13/14, (1971) / Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky -- "Opaque transparence" from Opposions 13 (1978) / Rosemarie Haag Bletter -- "Oublier Rowe" from Any 7/8 (1994) / Robert Somol -- "Transparency: autonomy and relationality" from AA Files 32 (1996) / Detlef Mertins -- "P-TR's progress" from Eleven authors in search of a building (1996) / Jeffrey Kipnis -- "Death of the hermeneutic phantom" from Houses of cards (1987) / Rosalind Kraus -- "An exchange between Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman" from Assemblage 12 (1990) / Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman -- Plates 61-120 -- "Photons: particles of light" from QED: the strange theory of light and matter (1985) / Richard Feynman -- "Poppaea's veil" from The living eye (1989) / Jean Starobinski -- "Lightness" from Six memos for the next millennium (1993) / Italo Calvino -- "Art and oscillation" from The transparent society (1992) / Gianni Vattimo.
"The glaze: phantasm and modern architecture" from Achtung architktur! image and phantasm in contemporary Austrian architecture (1996) / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen -- Plates 121-200 -- "The interpretation of the glass dream: expressionist architecture and the history of the crystal metaphor" from Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 40, no.1 (1981) / Rosemarie Haag Bletter -- "The glass paradise" from Architecture Review 125, no.745 (1959) / Reyner Banham -- Glass architecture (1914) / Paul Scheerbart -- "Modern monuments" from A critic writes: essays by Reynar Banham / Reyner Banham -- "Pierre Chareau: an eclectic architect" from Pierre Chareau: architect and craftsman, 1883-1950 (1985) / Kenneth Frampton -- "Critical architecture: between culture and form" from Perspecta 21 (1984) / K. Michael Hays -- "Mies van der Rohe's paradoxical symmetries" from Translations from drawing to building (1997) -- "A garden of microchips: the architectural image of the microelectronic age" from Any 5 (1994) Toyo Ito -- "The cunning cosmetics" from El Croquis 84 (1997 / Jeffrey Kipnis -- Afterward / Terence Riley.

Summary:

The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to celebrity status with the completion of competition-winning designs for the Tate Museum, Bankside, in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. These works share a taste for glass, perforated metal, and other transparent materials. In bringing together the work of these diverse architects, "Light Construction" raised crucial questions about the role of materials, the nature of architectural effects, and the legacy of modernism. The second volume of the Source Books in Architecture series, The Light Construction Reader is an ambitious collection of twenty-eight essays exploring the themes and issues that surround this important exhibition.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1580931057
9781580931052

Subject:

Eisenmann, Peter.
Ito, Toyoo, 1941-
Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-
Light in architecture.
Lighting, Architectural and decorative.
Glass construction.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Lumière en architecture.
Éclairage architectural.
Construction en verre.
Architecture 20e siècle.
architectural lighting.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Gannon, Todd.
Source books in architecture ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225557
Call No.: NA2794 .L54 2002
Status: Available