Title & Author:

Global perspectives on critical architecture : praxis reloaded / edited by Gevork Hartoonian, University of Canberra, Australia.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Three easy fragments: towards the formation of critical architecture / Gevork Hartoonian -- Globalization and the fate of theory / Peggy Deamer -- Kenneth Frampton interviewed by Gevork Hartoonian -- The unsung role of metonymy in constructing sites of exception: ekphrasis, divination, epiphany / Donald Kunze -- Exit implies entries lament: open architecture in John Hejduk's IBA-1984/87 immigrant housing / Esra Akcan -- Mary McLeod interviewed by Gevork Hartoonian -- The iconic and the critical / Simone Brott -- The city in the traumatic scene of modernity: on critical practice of Eingedenken / Nadir Lahiji -- Bernard Tschumi interviewed by Gevork Hartoonian -- A critical assessment of Italian architecture since 1985 / Marco Biraghi and Silvia Micheli -- "Toward a civil architecture": memorandum of a critical agenda in contemporary Chinese architecture / Wang Jun-Yang and He Liu -- Mark Wigley interviewed by Gevork Hartoonian.

Summary:

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the architect's role in the design and production processes of architecture.

ISBN:

9781472438133 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472438132 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781138573376 (paperback)
113857337X (paperback)
(ebook)
9781472438140
(epub)
9781472438157

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 21st century Themes, motives.
Architecture and globalization History 21st century.
Architecture and technology History 21st century.
Architecture 21e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture et mondialisation Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture et technologie Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and globalization.
Architecture and technology.
Architecture, Modern Themes, motives.

Form/genre:

Interviews.
History.

Added entries:

Hartoonian, Gevork, editor, interviewer.
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290992
Call No.: BIB 234276
Status: Available