Title & Author:

Narrating architecture : a retrospective anthology / edited by James Madge and Andrew Peckham.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

xv, 496 pages : illustrations, plans ; 20 cm

Notes:
"This book is a collection of material which has appeared in volumes one to nine of The Journal of Architecture."--Page [vii].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Architects and the practice of design : Language, sites and types: a consideration of the work of Alvaro Siza / Robert A. Levit ; Architecture as artifice / Karin Jaschke ; Frank Gehry: roofing, wrapping, and wrapping the roof / Gevork Hartoonian -- Part 2. Architecture and the discourses of science : Proun: an exercise in the illusion of four-dimensional / Richard J. Difford ; Complexities / Reinhold Martin ; The meaning of molluscs: Léonce Reynaud and the Cuvier-Geoffroy debate of 1830, Paris / Paula Young Lee -- Part 3. Issues of materiality : Between the barrier and the sieve: finding the border in the modern movement / Helmet Lethen ; The problem of our walls / Brian Hatton ; Ruins revisited: modernist conceptions of heritage / Brigitte Desrochers -- Part 4. Narratives of domesticity : Creating space out of text: perspectives on domestic Regency architecture or Three essays on the picturesque / Isabel Allen ; Tenuous boundaries: women, domesticity and nationhood in 1930s Turkey / Gülsüm Baydar ; The meanings of domesticity / Bart Verschaffel -- Part 5. Problems of building : Frank Lloyd Wright and the concrete slab and column / Leonard K. Eaton ; Berlage's Beurs: concept and method / Jan Molema ; Invention from war: a circumstantial modernism for Australian architecture / Philip Goad and Julie Willis -- Part 6. The sociology of architectural practice : What Vitruvious said / Richard Patterson ; 'Primitive wisdom' and modern architecture / Felicity Scott ; The networks of tropical architecture / Hannah le Roux -- Part 7. Identity and the appropriation of place : Identity and memory in the modern metropolis: elements for a discussion: the case of São Paulo / Elisabetta Andreali ; Hearth and cloth: dwelling practice and production in Eastern Tibet / Suzanne Ewing ; The classical model of the Spanish-American colonial city / René Martinez Lemoine ; From shikumen to new-style: a rereading of lilong housing in modern Shanghai / Chunlan Zhao.

ISBN:

0415385644 (pbk.)
9780415385640 (pbk.)
0415374359 (cased)
9780415374354 (cased)
9780203088562
0203088565

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Design architectural.
Architecture Esthétique.
Teoria da arquitetura.
Estética (arquitetura)

Added entries:

Madge, James.
Peckham, Andrew.
Journal of architecture (London, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252434
Call No.: BIB 182132
Status: Available