Anything

by Cynthia Davidson

• ISBN13: 9780262541305
• ISBN10: 0262541300
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

At a time when the fragmented ideas and styles in architecture make it seem as if "anything goes," Anythingasks whether there are constraints to thought and action that change "anything" to "the thing." In thirty-two original essays, many of them illustrated, leading architects, theorists, historians and others discuss their works. The wide-ranging topics include a "refugee republic," "blur buildings," virtual environments, shopping, and stress. "Anything," it would seem, is many things, opening the way for architecture to embrace history, science, research, and technology. The authors include, among others, Caroline Bos, Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Jacques Herzog, Steven Holl, Osamu Ishiyama, Arata Isozaki, Romi Khosla, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Wolf Prix, Hani Rashid, Bernard Tschumi, and Ben van Berkel. Anythingis the tenth and final book in the ongoing series that began in 1991 with Anyoneand was followed by Anywhere, Anyway, Anyplace, Anywise, Anybody, Anyhow, Anytime, and Anymore. Each volume is based on a conference at which architects and leaders in other fields came together to present papers and discuss a particular idea in architecture from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. The conference upon which Anythingis based took place in New York City in June 2000.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	8	(3)
Anybodies	11	(7)
THING AS ABSTRACTION
On Passing Time in Space, Airports, and Urban Phenomena	18	(6)
Bernard Tschumi
From Metaphor to Allegory	24	(13)
Fredric Jameson
The Loneliness of the Long Distant Future	37	(7)
Romi Khosla
Scale and Span in a Global Digital World	44	(5)
Saskia Sassen
Architecture as Interface	49	(13)
Hani Rashid
Discussion 1	55	(7)
THING AS OBJECT
Space for Change	62	(6)
Wolf Prix
Open-ended Skill; Six Points	68	(5)
Osamu Ishiyama
Remote Control	73	(4)
Mark C. Taylor
Stress	77	(5)
Bruce Mau
Walking on Water	82	(12)
Daniel Buren
Discussion 2	88	(6)
THING AS MATERIAL
In the Mood for Architecture	94	(6)
Jeffrey Kipnis
The Thingness of Light	100	(6)
Steven Holl
Radiant Synthetic Effects	106	(8)
Ben van Berkel
Caroline Bos
Thinking of Gadamer's Floor	114	(6)
Jacques Herzog
The Thing Called Architecture	120	(12)
Rafael Moneo
Discussion 3	124	(8)
THING AS FEELING
Blur/Babble	132	(8)
Elizabeth Diller
Thing as Feeling: Emotion Pictures	140	(8)
Giuliana Bruno
A Concise Genealogy of the Thing	148	(8)
Akira Asada
Arata Isozaki
Making Strange	156	(7)
Zaha Hadid
Anything Intervention	163	(17)
Gary Hill
Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson
Discussion 4	171	(9)
THING AS OBSESSION
The Regime of ¥¢$	180	(9)
Rem Koolhaas
Information Obsession: Multiscreen Architecture	189	(10)
Beatriz Colomina
Obsession ≠ Fascination	199	(7)
Jean Nouvel
A Flexible Architecture	206	(3)
Germano Celant
Refugee Republic	209	(5)
Ingo Gunther
The New Generic	214	(12)
Greg Lynn
Discussion 5	219	(7)
THING AS IDEA
From Anything To Biothing	226	(7)
Anthony Vidler
Surface Inscriptions	233	(6)
Ignasi de Sola-Morales
The Thing	239	(10)
Elizabeth Grosz
Anything But	249	(6)
Hubert Damisch
Thing as Other	255	(5)
Kojin Karatani
Making the Cut	260	(13)
Peter Eisenman
Discussion 6	264	(9)
Letters to Anything	273	(11)
Afterword	284
Cynthia C. Davidson