Practice

by Allen,Stan

• ISBN13: 9789057010729
• ISBN10: 9057010720
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: G & B Intl

Summary

This is a book of theoretical essays by architect Stan Allen, which examine the ways in which the modes of representation and techniques of realization available to the architect affect the practice of architecture. Allen shows how these models of representation are put into play in specific buildings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. While the practice of architecture is circumscribed by a function, the many practices that contribute to the realization of this task affect the look of our cities and the spaces we live in. Allen's essays, organized into three sections: Representations Buildings Media The final essays analyze the role of media in architecture, specifically the reproduction of buildings in photographic form, and the impact of computer-aided design techniques.

Table of Contents

introduction to the series	VII
saul ostrow
acknowledgments	IX
introduction	XIII
practice vs. project
essays stan allen
drawings
1 constructing with lines: on projection	1	(30)
2 mapping the unmappable: on notation	31	(16)
3 plotting traces:on process buildings	47	(24)
buildings
4 mies's theater of effects: the new national gallery	71	(16)
5 the guggenheim refigured: the solomon r. guggenheim museum	87	(16)
6 le corbusier and modernist movement: the carpenter center for the visual arts	103	(20)
media
7 ex novo: architecture and photography	123	(22)
8 terminal velocities: the computer in the design studio	145
postscript diana agrest
representation as articulation between theory and practice	163	(16)
notes	179	(21)
image credits	200