Anti-architecture and Deconstruction

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

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Anti-architecture and Deconstruction

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

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Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction

Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction PDF Author: Nikos Angelos Salingaros
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989346924
Category : Architectural criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction

Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction PDF Author: Nikos A. Salingaros
Publisher: Center for Environmental Structure
ISBN: 9780972652957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Anti-architecture and Deconstruction

Anti-architecture and Deconstruction PDF Author: Nikos Angelos Salingaros
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789937623131
Category : Architectural criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Anti-architecture et deconstruction

Anti-architecture et deconstruction PDF Author: Nikos A. Salingaros
Publisher: UMBAU-VERLAG Harald Püschel
ISBN: 3937954066
Category : Architectural criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 206

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Deconstructivist Architecture

Deconstructivist Architecture PDF Author: Philip Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Deconstruction in Architecture

Deconstruction in Architecture PDF Author: A. Papadakēs
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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A Theory of Architecture

A Theory of Architecture PDF Author: Nikos A. Salingaros
Publisher: Off The Common Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture, useful for every architect: from first-year students, to those taking senior design studio, to graduate students writing a Ph.D. dissertation in architectural theory, to experienced practicing architects. It is very carefully written so that it can be read even by the beginning architecture student. The information contained here is a veritable gold mine of design techniques. This book teaches the reader how to design by adapting to human needs and sensibilities, yet independently of any particular style. Here is a unification of genuine architectural knowledge that brings a new clarity to the discipline. It explains much of what people instinctively know about architecture, and puts that knowledge for the first time in a concise, understandable form. Dr. Salingaros has experience in the organization of the built environment that few practicing architects have. The later chapters of this new book touch on very sensitive topics: what drives architects to produce the forms they build; and why architects use only a very restricted visual vocabulary. Is it personal inventiveness, or is it something more, which perhaps they are not even aware of? There has not been such a book treating the very essence of architecture. The only other author who is capable of raising a similar degree of passion (and controversy) is Christopher Alexander, who happens to be Dr. Salingaros’ friend and architectural mentor. “Surely no voice is more thought-provoking than that of this intriguing, perhaps historically important, new thinker?” From the Preface by His Royal Highness, Charles, The Prince of Wales “A New Vitruvius for 21st-Century Architecture and Urbanism?” Dr. Ashraf SalamaChair, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar “Architecture, Salingaros argues, is governed by universal and intuitively understood principles, which have been exemplified by all successful styles and in all civilizations that have left a record of themselves in their buildings. The solution is not to return to the classical styles… the solution is to return to first principles and build within their constraints… ” Dr. Roger Scruton Philosopher, London, UK “A fundamental text, among the most significant of the past several years.” Dr. Vilma Torselli Architect and Author, Milan, Italy “A Theory of Architecture demonstrates how mathematics and the social sciences offer keys to designing a humane architecture. In this brilliant tome Salingaros explains why many modern buildings are neither beautiful nor harmonious and, alternatively, how architects and patrons can employ scale, materials and mathematical logic to design structures which are exciting, nourishing, and visually delightful.” Duncan G. Stroik Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana “Salingaros explores ways to clarify and formalize our understanding of aesthetic forms in the built environment, using mathematics, thermodynamics, Darwinism, complexity theory and cognitive sciences. Salingaros’ remarkable observations suggest that concepts of complexity and scale can someday provide a full-bodied explanation for both the practice and the appreciation of architecture.” Kim Sorvig Architecture & Planning, University of New Mexico See this book’s Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Architecture Nikos A. Salingaros is an internationally known urbanist and architectural theorist who has studied the scientific bases underlying architecture for thirty years. Utne Reader ranked him as “One of 50 visionaries who are changing your world”, and Planetizen as 11th among “The top 100 urban thinkers of all time”. He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The Architecture of Deconstruction

The Architecture of Deconstruction PDF Author: Mark Wigley
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262731140
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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

The Last Fortress of Metaphysics

The Last Fortress of Metaphysics PDF Author: Francesco Vitale
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438469373
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Examines the relationship of Derrida’s writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture. 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. Francesco Vitale is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences, also published by SUNY Press, and the author and editor of several books in Italian on Derrida and contemporary French philosophy. Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. He is the author of Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida, also published by SUNY Press.