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Crib Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural Conversation

Door Sylvia Lavin e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer
#367463-AE20
Titel
Crib Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural Conversation
Auteur
Lavin, Sylvia & Helene Mary Furján & Penelope Dean
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York : Monacelli Press
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
1580931588
ISBN13
9781580931588
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrations, 4to.
Samenvatting
Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms -- "diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " and "the generic, " among others -- capture the moment in architecture in definition and in operation. Crib Sheets is a guide -- a "crib" -- to twenty-two of those buzzwords, framing contemporary currents and trajectories.
Each of the words is presented with a list of quotations, or sound bites, arranged in order of length and drawn from more than two hundred commentators, from Charles Baudelaire, Le Corbusier, and Buckminster Fuller to Frank Gehry, Paul Goldberger, and Rem Koolhaas. The structure attempts to evoke the p
... (Lees verder)resent-day architectural conversation, capturing social milieus, current events, clusters of topics, and even background noise and eavesdropping.
Pagina's
190
Conditie
Nieuw — Still shrinkwrapped.
Prijs
€ 17,50

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