Title & Author:

Re-reading Perspecta : the first fifty years of the Yale Architectural Journal / edited by Robert A.M. Stern, Peggy Deamer and Alan Plattus.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2004.

Description:

xvii, 827 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Notes:
Designed by Henk van Assen, Amanda Bowers, and Sarah Gifford--AIGA Design Archives.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Re]perspecta 1. Training for the practice of architecture / George Howe ; The evolution of Wright, Mies & Le Corbusier / Henry-Russell Hitchcock ; 3 New Directions : Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Buckminster Fuller / The editors ; Monumental architecture : or the art of pleasing in civic design / Henry H. Reed Jr. -- [Re]perspecta 2. Some experiences and observations of an elderly architect / George Howe ; Towards a plan for Midtown Philadelphia / Louis Kahn ; The Cardboard House / Buckminster Fuller ; On the responsibility of the architect : roundtable discussions with Philip Johnson, Pietro Belluschi, Louis Kahn, Paul Weiss and Vincent Scully / The editors -- [Re]perspecta 3. Environment and anonymous architecture / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy ; The seven crutches of modern architecture / Philip Johnson ; Order and form : Yale Art Gallery + Design Center, designed by Louis Kahn / The editors ; Order is / Louis Kahn -- [Re]perspecta 4. Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces / Louis Kahn ; Modern architecture : toward a redefinition of style / Vincent Scully, Jr. ; Regionalism in architecture / Paul Rudolph ; Order in Architecture / Louis Kahn -- [Re]perspecta 5. A letter / Mathew Nowicki -- [Re]perspecta 6. Hadrian's Villa / Charles Moore ; The work of Charles Edouard Jeanneret / The editors ; "The functional tradition" and expression / James Stirling -- [Re]perspecta 7. An interview / Eero Saarinen ; Act and behavior in architecutre / John Johansen ; For Perspecta / Paul Rudolph ; The future of the past / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy ; Open and closed / Colin St. John Wilson -- [Re]perspecta 8. Transparency : literal and phenomenal / Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky ; Antonio Gaudi : structure and form / George R. Collins ; The death of the street / Vincent Scully, Jr. ; The forces that shaped Park Avenue / Richard Roth -- [Re]perspecta 9/10. Complexity and contradiction in architecture / Robert Venturi ; You have to pay for the public life / Charles W. Moore ; Whence & whither : the processional element in architecture / Philip Johnson ; Replication replicated, or notes on American bastardy / George L. Hersey ; Doldrums in the suburbs / Vincent Scully, Jr. -- Portfolio of projects from issues 01-09/10.
[Re]perspecta 11. Now and then / Peter Millard ; Plug it in, Rameses, and see if it lights up / Charles W. Moore ; Conversation on urbanism / Shadrach Woods and Roger Vailland ; Democratic planning / Paul Davidoff -- [Re]specta 12. Mass communication on the people freeway / Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown ; Typology and design method / Alan Colquhoun ; Maison de Verre / Kenneth Frampton ; Lutyens' architecture restudied / Allan Greenburg -- [Re]perspecta 13/14. From object to relationship II : Giuseppe Terragni Casa Giuliani Frigerio / Peter Eisenman ; Eileen Gray : two housees and an interior, 1925-1933 / Joseph Rykwert ; Some houses of Ill-repute / Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown ; Transparency : literal and phenomenal : part 2 / Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky -- [Re]perspecta 15. Southerness / Charles W. Moore ; Arts and architecture case study houses / Esther McCoy ; Julia Morgan : some introductory notes / Richard Longstreth -- [Re]perspecta 16. The monumental tradition / James Stirling ; Recycling New York / Alexander Garvin ; The crisis of the object : the predicament of texture / Fred Koetter and Colin Rowe -- [Re]perspecta 17. The Dream of the complete building / Karsten Harries ; An architecture of participation / Giancarlo de Carlo -- [Re]perspecta 18. The architecture of James Gamble Rogers at Yale University / Susan Ryan ; Notes on design / Peter Millard ; Skyscrapers / Cesar Pelli -- [Re]perspecta 19. negation and reconciliation / Raimund Abraham ; Building and the terror of time / Karsten Harries ; Silent witnesses / John Hejduk ; The shape of time reconsidered / George Kubler ; The persistence of formal patterns / Alexander Purves ; A conversation / Kevin Roche ; Notes from sight point road / Richard Serra -- [Re]perspecta 20. Process and theme in the work of Carlo Scarpa / Giuseppe Zambonini ; Prospects for a critical regionalism / Kenneth Frampton ; Landscape and architecture work of Erik Gunnar Asplund / Stuart Wrede -- Portfolio of projects from issues 11-20.
[Re]perspecta 21. Critical architecture : between culture and form / K. Michael Hays ; (Post) modern polemics / Hal Foster ; The end of the classical : the end of the beginning, the end of the end / Peter Eisenman -- [Re]perspecta 22. Drawing a conclusion / Jeffrey Kipnis ; Excerpts from a conversation / Paul Rudolph ; Mies van der Rohe : a moral modernism model / Stanley Tigerman -- [Re]perspecta 23. On history and architecture : an interview / Francesco Dal Co ; Vertex and vortex : a tectonics of section / Jennifer Bloomer ; Disjunctions / Bernard Tschumi ; The origins of modern eclecticism / Ignasi de Sola Morales ; Postmortem architecture : the taste of Derrida / Mark Wigley -- [Re]perspecta 24. Notes on a theory of making / Giuseppe Zambonini ; A conversation, "The idea of lasting" / Rafael Moneo -- [Re]perspecta 25. Wall : the time's building / Tadao Ando -- [Re]perspecta 26. Projections / Krzystof Wodiczko ; Peter Behrens' highest kultursymbol, the theater / Stanford Anderson ; On art for the stage / Peter Behrens -- [Re]perspecta 27. Order and disorder / Giovanni Michelucci ; A life one century long / Francesco Dal Co ; A conversation with Giovanni Michelucci / The editors -- [Re]perspecta 28. Doctrine and Uncertainties / Jean Nouvel ; For an open architecture / Gunter Behnisch ; On the work of Patkau Associates : tecto-totemic form / Kenneth Frampton ; On the work of Thomas Leeser : critique of the inverted house, a home for twin surgeons / Hani Rashid -- [Re]perspecta 29. Future Zones / Michael Sorkin ; Nietzsche in New Haven / Thomas Fisher ; Still learning from Las Vegas / Robert Goodman -- [Re]perspecta 30. Which new urbanism : The revanchist '90's / Neil Smith ; Interchange and container : the new orgman / Keller Easterling ; American modern : seven housing projects / The editors -- Portfolio of projects from issues 21-30 -- Practice and theory : Perspecta and the fate of the architectural discourse. Reflections on Perspecta : the end of the beginning / Kenneth Frampton ; Reading perspecta 1 through 10 : the early years in context / Joan Ockman ; Perspecta 11-22 : searching for authenticity / K. Michael Hays ; Perspecta since 1987 : the necessity of choice / Sandy Isenstadt ; The founding of Perspecta / Alvin Eisenman ; Perspecta's graphic design and graphic design's perspective / Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.

Summary:

"The material included here is organized chronologically by issue. Each issue opens with a statement by one of the editors discussing the historical context and the reasoning behind the selections made. Robert A.M. Stern writes introductions for issues 1 through 9/10, Alan Plattus, 11 through 20, and Peggy Deamer, 21 through 30. Each issue also includes the original editor's introduction, if one was written"--Page xiii.

ISBN:

0262195062
9780262195065

Subject:

New Haven <Conn.> / Yale University.
Perspecta.
Architectural design History 20th century.
Structural engineering History 20th century.
Architectural design Periodicals History.
Structural engineering Periodicals History.
Design architectural Histoire 20e siècle.
Technique de la construction Histoire 20e siècle.
Design architectural Périodiques Histoire.
Technique de la construction Périodiques Histoire.
Architectural design.
Structural engineering.
Architekturzeitschrift

Form/genre:

Periodical
periodicals.
Periodicals.
History.
Périodiques.

Added entries:

Stern, Robert A. M.
Deamer, Peggy.
Plattus, Alan J.
Assen, Henk van, 1961- book designer, bookjacket designer.
Bowers, Amanda, book designer, bookjacket designer.
Gifford, Sarah, book designer, bookjacket designer.

[Re]reading Perspecta

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241132
Call No.: BIB 171038
Status: Available