Mark Jarzombek

Architecture Constructed (eBook, ePUB)

Notes on a Discipline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persisting through Classical and Renaissance times to the present day, and yet it has rarely been addressed through a historical and theoretical lens.

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature of the history of architecture. He reveals architecture to be a troubled, interconnected realm, incomplete and unstable, where labor, craft, and occupation are the 'invisible' complements to the work of the architect.

Erudite, entertaining, and full of surprising and thought-provoking juxtapositions and challenges, Architecture Constructed is packed with novel insights into the internal conflicts and paradoxes of architecture, and is rich with examples from modern and contemporary practice-including Mies, Koolhaas, Potrc, Hadid, Bawa, Diller + Scofidio-which demonstrate how contemporary architecture inhabits the very same tensions that have riven the discipline since the days of Alberti.

This provocative book will stimulate conversations among students, researchers, and designers, as it pushes the boundaries on how we define the professional discipline of architecture and overturns entrenched assumptions about the nature of architectural history and theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350326149
• Artikelnr.: 68258445

Autorenporträt

Mark Jarzombek is an architectural historian, author and critic. Since 1995 he has taught and served within the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgements Part 1 1: Preface 2: Arche
Tekton 3: Shell Games Part 2 1: Befores and Afters 2: Dialectics of (In)Completion 3: Post
Teleology Part 3 1: The Curse of Socrates 2: Occupationality 3: Faber Ingenium Part 4 1: 'Architecture' 2: Anamorphic Realism Part 5 1: Arche
Soci(arche)ology 2: Arche
2 3: Laugier's Haunts Part 6 1: Tekton
Topia Part 7 1: Master
Builder 2: Tekton Libidinalism 3: 'Construction' De
Positioning Postscript List of Credits Index