Main entry:

Reiser, Jesse.

Title & Author:

Atlas of novel tectonics / Reiser + Umemoto.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes some mounted illustrations showing projects by the architectural firm, Reiser + Umemoto.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-253).
The Judo of cold combustion / Sanford Kwinter -- Introduction : Potential ; From extensive field/intensive object to intensive field-object ; Constraints -- Geometry : Fineness ; Difference in kind/difference in degree ; The unformed generic: form acquiring content ; Similarity and difference ; Variety (difference) vs. variation (self-similarity) ; Part-to-whole relationships ; After collage: two conditions of the generic ; Coherence vs. incoherence ; A new understanding of difference ; Selection vs. classification -- Matter : Intensive and extensive ; Geometry and matter ; Folly of the mean ; Classical body/impersonal individuation ; Material organizations ; Matter/force relationships ; From a static to an oscillatory model (and back again) ; Operating in a state of poise ; poise in an allied discipline ; Refrain ; Exchanges among systems ; Intensive and extensive II ; Machinic phylum ; The diagram ; Diagram deployment ; Fineness and the macroscale ; Fineness in allied fields ; Interdisciplinary exchange ; New possibilities for spatial structures ; Matter and context ; Essentialized systems vs. system with singularities ; Exact/anexact-yet-rigorous ; Material computation ; Systems becoming other systems ; Post-Fordist implementations -- Operating : Mount Sinai ; Program: architecture :: lyrics: music ; Operating under a surfeit of information ; Asignifying signs ; Moving in the gradient field ; Accidental animism ; Migration of a pattern ; Emergent structures ; Invention ; Style ; Panglossian Paradigm ; Devolutionary architecture ; Optimization ; Classicism without models ; Projecting force ; Architecture vs. war ; The nomad is the one standing still -- Common errors to avoid : The abuse of the accident ; The abuse of data ; The abuse of history ; The abuse of the diagram ; The abuse of logic ; The typologist's error -- The world : A parable for our time ; Foamy realities ; Pop iconography as myth ; Migration of practices ; Migration of ethics ; Desire's rainbow: migration of products ; Continuity and discontinuity ; A materialist argument of culture ; Neo-regionalism.

Summary:

"Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architec-ture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural design as a series of problem situations, and each chapter is an argument devoted to a specific condition or case. Influenced by a wide range of fields and phenomena--Brillat-Savarin's classic The Physiology of Taste is one of their primary models--the authors provide a cross-section of thinking and inspiration. The result is both an elucidation of the concepts that guide Reiser+Umemoto through their own design process and a series of meditations on topics that have formed their own sense as architects. Atlas of Novel Tectonics offers an entirely fresh perspective on subjects that are generally taken for granted, and does so with a welcome punch and energy."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568985541
9781568985541

Subject:

Reiser + Umemoto Firma
Reiser + Umemoto.
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Eclecticism in architecture.
Eclecticism in literature.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Éclectisme dans la littérature.
Éclectisme en architecture.
Historicism (architectural style)
Architektur
Eklektizismus
Entwurf
Proportion

Added entries:

Umemoto, Nanako.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299856
Call No.: BIB 174129
Status: Available