Main entry:

Maxwell, Robert, 1922-2020, author.

Title & Author:

A few years of writing : interspersed with some facts of life / Robert Maxwell.

Publication:

London : Artifice Books on Architecture, [2012]
©2012

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Three houses -- The Design Centre in Kyoto -- Richard Rogers e la macchina spaziale -- Tours de force -- Über alles -- Theoretical practice -- The Texas rangers -- A critic writes -- A few words for Colin Rowe -- 9H, No. 9 : on continuity -- Temple Bar five years on -- Iconography and electronics upon a generic architecture -- Introduction of Van Heyningen and Haward -- Sounds and sweet airs at Stuttgart -- Rowing Museum at Henley -- Transgressions : crossing the lines at the Royal Academy -- Introduction for John Tuomey -- My kind of town : Aix-En-Provence -- Translations from drawing to building, and other essays -- Durability -- Enlightenment : a villa in Hampstead by Rick Mather Architects -- Ecstatic space -- The truth about the myth -- No. 1 Poultry -- Approaching the void : can the tragic appear in architecture? -- Critique of the Smithsons without rhetoric -- Rowe in memorium -- A visit to Clare Hall -- Book on Dixon Jones -- Fingal County Hall, Dublin -- Letter -- Picasso and Duchamp -- Visual history of C20 architecture -- Architecture : a very short introduction -- Looking around -- Architectural reflections -- Tracing architecture -- A house in Chelsea for an art collector -- Double house in Hampstead -- School of architecture at Lincoln University -- House near Bargemon -- Index architecture -- Obituary of Philip Johnson -- School conversion Hoxton Square -- Louis I Kahn -- Eisenman : the formal basis of modern architecture -- The Peace Palace Library, The Hague -- The American influence on post-war British architecture -- The judicious eye -- Richard Meier : complete works -- The garden of cosmic speculation -- Michael Wilford at Melsungen.

Summary:

With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and discourse, Robert Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected architectural writers and educators of recent times. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert Maxwell is a scholar known worldwide for critical writing that looks at modern and contemporary architecture in relation to our wider culture, including art, literature and music. A Few Years of Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life brings together a collection of over 30 of Maxwell's writings from the late twentieth century to the present, through which are woven events and occasions from his own diary that expand on debates in the world of architecture throughout the period. Texts include "Richard Rogers: an Evaluation", first published in Casabella in February 1994; "Sounds and Sweet Airs at Stuttgart", a review of the Music School at Stuttgart, in the RIBA Journal in October 1996; an obituary of Philip Johnson in The Architectural Review, in March 2005; and "Eisenman: The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture", in Building Design in September 2006. This engaging collection, at once intimate and autobiographical, insightful and perceptive, as well as critical and theoretical, results in a rich description of the culture of architecture across two decades towards the close of the last century and during the early years of the present. A Few Years of Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life is the first of two books of Robert Maxwell's writing to be published by Artifice, with the second coming out in Spring 2013.

ISBN:

9781908967077 (pbk.)
1908967072 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Writings.
Diaries.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282559
Call No.: NA44.M465.A35 2012
Status: Available