Introducing architectural theory : debating a discipline / edited by Korydon Smith.
Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2012Description: xix, 423 p. : ill. ; 23 cm001: 27392ISBN: 0415888387 (pbk.) :; 9780415888387 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Architecture -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 720.1 LOC classification: NA2500 | .S555 2012| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject - such as tectonics, use, and site - as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a set of reflective questions so that you can hone your own theory, which is essential to both your success in the studio and your adaptability in the profession. These primary source texts, which are central to your understanding of the discipline, were written by such architects as Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, and Adrian Forty. The appendices also have guides to aid your reading comprehension; to help you write descriptively, analytically, and disputationally; and to show you citation styles and how to do library-based research. More than any other architectural theory book about the great thinkers, Introducing Architectural Theory teaches you to think as well.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface: To Educators: The Impetus for this Book
- Part 1 Debate in Architecture
- Introduction: To Students: Why Architectural Theory is Vital
- Debating a Discipline: Architecture, Argument, and the Concept of the Dialectic
- Part 2 Dialectical Readings in Architecture
- 2.1 Tectonics
- 1 Simplicity and Complexity: Original Text: Where Do We Stand?
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
- Philosophical Text: On Simplicity
- 2 Ornament and Austerity Original Text: Ornament and Crime
- Reflective Text: Ornament and Crime: The Decisive Contribution of Adolf Loos
- Philosophical Text: Ornament Is No Crime
- 3 Honesty and Deception Original Text: The Lamp of Truth
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from 'Discourses on Architecture'
- Philosophical Text: Truth to the Medium: Using Materials
- 4 Material and Immaterial Original Text: Excerpts from The Art of Building in Ten Books (Book III)
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from The Eyes of the Skin
- Philosophical Text: Excerpts from Immaterial Architecture
- 2.2 Use
- 5 Function and Form Original Text: The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from 'Architecture and Disjunction'
- Philosophical Text: Function
- 6 Function and Form (part 2)
- Original Text: Excerpts from 'An American Architecture'
- Reflective Text: Post-Functionalism
- Philosophical Text: Purpose, Function, Use
- 7 Body and Building Original Text: Excerpts from The Ten Books on Architecture (Book III)
- Reflective Text: Le Modulor
- Philosophical Text: Hidden Lines: Gender, Race, and the Body
- 8 Proportion and Organization Original Text: Excerpts from The Four Books on Architecture
- Reflective Text: The Plan of the Modern House
- Philosophical Text: The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa
- 2.3 Site
- 9 Context and Building Original Text: Excerpts from The Radiant City
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Philosophical Text: Contextualism: Urban Ideals and Deformations
- 10 Context and Building (part 2) Original Text: Experts from The Ten Books on Architecture (Book I)
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from Learning from Las Vegas
- Philosophical Text: Context
- 11 Natural and Constructed Original Text: Excerpts from 'An Essay on Architecture'
- Reflective Text: Territory and Architecture
- Philosophical Text: On Site: Architectural Preoccupations
- 12 Natural and Constructed (part 2)
- Original Text: Excerpts from 'Genius Loci'
- Reflective Text: Excerpts from 'Place and Placelessness'
- Philosophical Text: Genius Loci: Hidden Truth or Hidden Agenda?
- Appendices (for students)
- Guide to Reading Comprehension and Analysis
- Guide to Descriptive, Analytical, and Disputational Writing
- Guide to Citation Styles
- Guide to Library-based Research
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