Callender Architecture History and Theory in Reverse

From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-33973-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part One begins with present-day attitudes about architecture and traces them back to seminal ideas from the beginning of the twentieth century. Part Two examines how pre-twentieth century societies designed and understood architecture, how they strove to create communal physical languages, and how their disagreements set the stage for our information age practices. Includes 45 black and white images.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callender, Jassen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction Epilogue: Today in the Beginning… Part 1: Architecture in an Information Age 1. 21st Century Trajectories 2. Modernity’s Legacy in a New Millennium 3. A Postmodern Profession, circa 1991 4. Formal or Phenomenological: a feud between forms of information 5. Deconstruction, Irony, the Pompidou, and the São Pedro 6. Mies van der Rohe in Chicago 7. Language Games 8. Loos and the Ascension of Space in the Marketplace Interlude: The Information Reformation, or This Killed That … Part 2: Architecture in Eras of Meaning 9. 16 June 1904: Ulysses and the Uncanny 10. Marx, Meaning, and Matter 11. Exchange and Evolution 12. In What Style: epistemes and monsters 13. The Précis and the Paternity of Perception 14. De Sade versus Descartes: competing conceptions of language 15. The Tense of Abstract Nouns 16. Vitruvian Cycles 1: representations against space 17. Vitruvian Cycles 2: physical language and shared experience Prologue: Babel… Further Reading Image Credits Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jassen Callender is an associate professor of architecture and the director of Mississippi State University’s Jackson Center located in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.