Derrida for Architects

Author: Richard Coyne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136723463
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Jacques Derrida’s thinking is radical, provocative, controversial, and even difficult. This book looks afresh at Derrida’s thinking in relation to architecture. It simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. As well as a review of Derrida’s interaction with architecture, it is also a careful consideration of the implications of his thinking, particularly on the way architecture is practiced.

The Architecture of Deconstruction

Author: Mark Wigley
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262731140
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.

The Last Fortress of Metaphysics

Author: Francesco Vitale
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438469373
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Between 1984 and 1994 Jacques Derrida wrote and spoke a great deal about architecture both in his academic work and in connection with a number of particular building projects around the world. He engaged significantly with the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, and Daniel Libeskind. Derrida conceived of architecture as an example of the kind of multidimensional writing that he had theorized in Of Grammatology, identifying a rich common ground between architecture and philosophy in relation to ideas about political community and the concept of dwelling. In this book, Francesco Vitale analyzes Derrida's writings and demonstrates how Derrida's work on this topic provides a richer understanding of his approach to deconstruction, highlighting the connections and differences between philosophical deconstruction and architectural deconstructivism.

Anti-architecture and Deconstruction

Author: Nikos Angelos Salingaros
Publisher: UMBAU-VERLAG Harald Püschel
ISBN: 3937954015
Category : Architectural criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description

Merleau-Ponty for Architects

Author: Jonathan Hale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317291999
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge, Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow and Alberto Pérez-Gómez in North America and Juhani Pallasmaa in Finland. Merleau-Ponty suggested that the value of people’s experience of the world gained through their immediate bodily engagement with it remains greater than the value of understanding gleaned through abstract mathematical, scientific or technological systems. This book summarizes what Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy has to offer specifically for architects. It locates architectural thinking in the context of his work, placing it in relation to themes such as space, movement, materiality and creativity, introduces key texts, helps decode difficult terms and provides quick reference for further reading.

Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

Author: Andrew Ballantyne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134103158
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description

Foucault for Architects

Author: Gordana Fontana-Giusti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135010080
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts and aesthetics led to a renewed focus on the avant-garde. Prepared by an architect, this book offers an excellent entry point into the remarkable work of Michel Foucault, and provides a focused introduction suitable for architects, urban designers, and students of architecture. Foucault’s crucial juxtaposition of space, knowledge and power has unlocked novel spatial possibilities for thinking about design in architecture and urbanism. While the philosopher's ultimate attention on the issues of body and sexuality has defined our understanding of the possibilities and limits of human condition and its relation to architecture. The book concentrates on a number of historical and theoretical issues often addressed by Foucault that have been grouped under the themes of archaeology, enclosure, bodies, spatiality and aesthetics in order to examine and demonstrate their relevancy for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice.

Benjamin for Architects

Author: Brian Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136846360
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
A concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, considering figures of modern art and architecture in detail, and locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.

Daniel Libeskind, Radix-Matrix

Author: Daniel Libeskind
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Daniel Libeskind represents a unique attempt to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of Libeskind's architecture and philosophy. Libeskind serves as the mediator of his own work, exploring various projects through an illuminating juxtaposition of textual commentary with illustrations of competition models, concept drawings, and site photos of realized works. Essays by Jacques Derrida and Mark C. Taylor, among others, provide a critical analysis of Libeskind's architecture, identifying his place within the context of contemporary architecture and theory. The book concludes with a collection of Libeskind's most important essays, many of which are published here in English for the first time.

Bhabha for Architects

Author: Felipe Hernandez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135146632
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on the work of critic Homi K. Bhabha, who's work has been used as a means to analyse architectural practices in previously colonised contexts. This title reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study of contemporary architectures in general, not only in colonial and postcolonial contexts.