Critical Architecture

by Rendell; Jane

• ISBN13: 9780415415385
• ISBN10: 0415415381
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical Architecture: Between Criticism and Design'

Criticism/Negation/Action Introduction

Criticality and Operativity'

Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri'

Architecture as Critical Knowledge'

Passing through Deconstruction'

Utopia, Critique, and Contemporary Discourse'

Militant Architecture: Destabilising Architecture's Disciplinarity'

Architecture's Critical Context: The Athens' Activist Experiment'

Criticism in/and/of Crisis'

Architecture-Writing Introduction

The Drowning Method: On Giving an Account in Practice-Based Research'

The Poetics of Urban Inscription: From Metaphorical Cognition to Counter-Representation'

Critical Action and Active Criticism'

Film as Spatial Critique'

Architectural History, Friendship and Filmed Conversations'

Image, Text, Architecture: The Presence that "WAS HERE"'

Fluttering Butterflies, a Dusty Road, and a Muddy Stone: Criticality in Distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004)'

Memoirs: It will have already happened'

Site-Writing: Enigma and Embellishment'

Criticism by Design Introduction

Centuries of Ambiguity: Sublime and Beautiful Weather at the Farnsworth House'

Immediate Architecture'

Alvin Boyarsky's Delicatessen'

Out of the Salon with Natalie Barney towards a Critically Queer Architecture'

Writing about Things and the Doing of Them'

Quilting Jakarta'

Where is the Project? Cedric Price on Architectural Action'

The Fall: The Allegorical Architectural Project as a Critical Method'

On Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas'

Cultural Context nbsp; Introduction

I Mean to be Critical, But...'

Critical Post-Critical: Problems of Effect, Experience and Immersion'

A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation'

Three Scenarios for a Critical Architecture of Desert Mobility'

The Responsive City'

China as a Global Site: in a Critical Geography of Design'

Critical Practice'

Architecture for an Active Edge: the Gateway, Derby'

Neuland: Disenchanted Utopias for Tel Aviv'

Beyond Koolhaas'

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