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The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian

Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865958
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian written by Gevork Hartoonian and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the question concerning the discursive formation of architectural history, the chapters compiled in this book attempt to re-read the historiography of early modern architecture from the point of view of the theoretical work produced since the post-war era. Central to the objectives of the argument are the ways in which, firstly, architectural history differs from the traditions of art history, and, secondly, that the historical narrative works its autonomy through theoretical representation, the discursive flow of which is interrupted by the historian’s urge to support arguments with references to buildings, texts, drawings, and historical events. The historians discussed in this volume are those regularly addressed by most critics revisiting modern architectural history. Individual chapters are dedicated to N. Pevsner, H. R. Hitchcock, and S. Giedion, an economy of selection that is formative for a critical understanding of the canon established by these historians. Themes such as periodization, autonomy, and time are discussed, and the coda of the final chapter expands on the scope of “critical historiography” popularised by Kenneth Frampton and Manfredo Tafuri.

Time, History and Architecture

Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351981390
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Time, History and Architecture written by Gevork Hartoonian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper for architectural history. In a work exploring themes such as time, autonomy and periodization, author Gevork Hartoonian unpacks the formation of architectural history; the problem of autonomy in criticism and the historiographic narrative. Considering the scope of criticism informing the contemporaneity of architecture, the book explores the concept of nonsimultaneity, and introduces retrospective criticism the agent of critical historiography. An engaging thematic dialogue for academics and upper-level graduate students interested in architectural history and theory, this book aims to deconstruct the certainties of historicism and to raise new questions and interpretations from established critical canons.

The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture

Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000907457
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture written by Gevork Hartoonian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. Focusing on a particular building type, an influential architect’s work, as well as relevant texts and documents, each chapter addresses the many facets of "delay" which are central to the problematization of capitalism’s progressive dissemination of technological and aesthetic regimes of modernism. This collection underlines the centrality of temporality for a critical understanding of colonialism, modernism, and capitalism. The book is primarily concerned with the historical timeline, the tangential point when a nation enters modernization processes. In exploring modernism in diverse regions such as East Asia, Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Iran, each chapter addresses the historiographic and architectonic unfolding of modernization beyond the western hemisphere. The exploration of these diverse case-studies will be of interest to students of architecture and researchers working on the collision of temporalities and the subject's critical importance for different country’s built-environments.

Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317127447
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture written by Gevork Hartoonian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Moreover, critical architectural theories, including those of Breton, Heidegger and Benjamin, which explored the concepts of technology, modernism, labour and capital and how technology informed the cultural, along with later theories from the 1960s, which focused more on the architect’s theorization of his/her own design strategies, seem increasingly irrelevant. In an age of digital reproduction and commodification, these theoretical approaches need to be reassessed. Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Peggy Deamer, Bernard Tschumi, Donald Kunze and Marco Biraghi, this volume investigates and critically addresses various dimensions of the present crisis of architecture. It poses questions such as: Is architecture a conservative cultural product servicing a given producer/consumer system? Should architecture’s affiliative ties with capitalism be subjected to a measure of criticism that can be expanded to the entirety of the cultural realm? Is architecture’s infusion into the cultural the reason for the visibility of architecture today? What room does the city leave for architecture beyond the present delirium of spectacle? Should the thematic of various New Left criticisms of capitalism be taken as the premise of architectural criticism? Or alternatively, putting the notion of criticality aside is it enough to confine criticism to the production of insightful and pleasurable texts?

Building-in-time

Author : Marvin Trachtenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300165920
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Building-in-time written by Marvin Trachtenberg and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name "Building-in-Time." It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter's. Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture ("Building-outside-Time"). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making.

The Historiography of Modern Architecture

Author : Panayotis Tournikiotis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262700856
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Historiography of Modern Architecture written by Panayotis Tournikiotis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history—of buildings to books—has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.

Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

RIBA Journal

Author : Royal Institute of British Architects
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
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Download or read book RIBA Journal written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlines of the History of Art

Author : Wilhelm Lübke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Outlines of the History of Art written by Wilhelm Lübke and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton

Author : Robert Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton written by Robert Willis and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlines of Art History

Author : James Frederick Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Outlines of Art History written by James Frederick Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2000 pages
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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man in the Glass House

Author : Mark Lamster
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316453498
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Glass House written by Mark Lamster and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson -- a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award. When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable and influential figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading architects with his famous Glass House in New Caanan, CT, and his controversial AT&T Building in NYC, among many others in nearly every city in the country -- but his most natural role was as a consummate power broker and shaper of public opinion. Johnson introduced European modernism -- the sleek, glass-and-steel architecture that now dominates our cities -- to America, and mentored generations of architects, designers, and artists to follow. He defined the era of "starchitecture" with its flamboyant buildings and celebrity designers who esteemed aesthetics and style above all other concerns. But Johnson was also a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer, a designer of synagogues, an enfant terrible into his old age, a populist, and a snob. His clients ranged from the Rockefellers to televangelists to Donald Trump. Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A rollercoaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful, and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.

The History of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Author : Clarence B. Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The History of Tulsa, Oklahoma written by Clarence B. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research

Author : Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Side of the Mountain

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593115007
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Living on Campus

Author : Carla Yanni
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959552
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Living on Campus written by Carla Yanni and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the architecture of dormitories that exposes deeply held American beliefs about education, youth, and citizenship Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The residence hall has come to mark the threshold between childhood and adulthood, housing young people during a transformational time in their lives. Whether a Gothic stone pile, a quaint Colonial box, or a concrete slab, the dormitory is decidedly unhomelike, yet it takes center stage in the dramatic arc of many American families. This richly illustrated book examines the architecture of dormitories in the United States from the eighteenth century to 1968, asking fundamental questions: Why have American educators believed for so long that housing students is essential to educating them? And how has architecture validated that idea? Living on Campus is the first architectural history of this critical building type. Grounded in extensive archival research, Carla Yanni’s study highlights the opinions of architects, professors, and deans, and also includes the voices of students. For centuries, academic leaders in the United States asserted that on-campus living enhanced the moral character of youth; that somewhat dubious claim nonetheless influenced the design and planning of these ubiquitous yet often overlooked campus buildings. Through nuanced architectural analysis and detailed social history, Yanni offers unexpected glimpses into the past: double-loaded corridors (which made surveillance easy but echoed with noise), staircase plans (which prevented roughhousing but offered no communal space), lavish lounges in women’s halls (intended to civilize male visitors), specially designed upholstered benches for courting couples, mixed-gender saunas for students in the radical 1960s, and lazy rivers for the twenty-first century’s stressed-out undergraduates. Against the backdrop of sweeping societal changes, communal living endured because it bolstered networking, if not studying. Housing policies often enabled discrimination according to class, race, and gender, despite the fact that deans envisioned the residence hall as a democratic alternative to the elitist fraternity. Yanni focuses on the dormitory as a place of exclusion as much as a site of fellowship, and considers the uncertain future of residence halls in the age of distance learning.