Zaera, Alejandro, author.
The sniper's log : architectural chronicles of Generation-X / [author], Alejandro Zaera-Polo ; [text editor, Gavin Keeney].
Barcelona ; New York : Actar ; [Princeton, New Jersey] : [with the collaboration of Princeton University School of Architecture], [2012]
©2012
592 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, and academic presentations), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience that reveals that theory is here primarily instrumental and seeks efficiency rather than truth. We do not theorise because we want to understand the deep truths of the world, but because we need to organise the realm where we operate, understand how reality works and find an effective way to perform within it.
9788492861224 (paperback)
8492861223 (paperback)
Zaera, Alejandro.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture and technology.
Architectural practice.
Architectural design.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture et technologie.
Design architectural.
Keeney, Gavin, editor.
Architectural chronicles of Generation-X
Location: Library main 282201
Call No.: BIB 219437
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