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Titel och upphov The secret life of buildings : an American mythology for modern architecture
Utgivning, distribution etc. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. : 1985
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Anmärkning: Bibliografi etc. Includes index Bibliography: p
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Automatiskt genererade ämnesord (BURK) Arkitektur Förenta Staterna Modern Tid Arkitektur Teori Filosofi
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Not since the 1920s has American architecture undergone such fundamental changes as those which are revitalizing the profession today. But in this period of great artistic fertility and unrest, there has yet to emerge a critical theory capable of analyzing the conditions and examining the attitudes by which our architecture is being redefined. Gavin Macrae-Gibson is the first of a generation of architects educated in the 1970s to construct a method of criticism powerful enough to interpret this new architecture. The theory is built upon a close reading of seven works, all completed in the 1980s: Frank Gehry's Gehry House in Santa Monica, Peter Eisenman's House El Even Odd, Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers in Houston, Michael Graves' Portland Public Service building, Robert Stern's Bozzi residence in East Hampton, Allan Greenberg's Manchester Superior Courthouse in Connecticut, and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown's Gordon Wu Hall at Princeton. The author uses urban plans, and architectural drawings and photographs to reveal the layers of meaning present in each building, including the deepest layer-its secret life. At this level the buildings have in common the fact that their meaning is derived from the realities of an imperfect present and no longer from the anticipation of a utopian future. Gavin Macrae-Gibson is a practicing architect. He has been Visiting Lecturer in Architectural Theory at Yale University since 1982, and has taught and lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada. A Graham Foundation Book. The Graham Foundation Architecture Series Two decades ago, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts published Robert Venturi's epoch-making Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in association with the Museum of Modern Art. Now the foundation is renewing its commitment to architectural literature by announcing the first two titles of a new series it is launching with The MIT Press. The aim is to publish books that are of crucial importance to the theory and practice of architecture, and that will enhance the understanding of architecture as a humanist discipline. The series will feature original texts by contemporary architects, historians, theorists, and critics.
Acknowledgments p. ix Preface p. x Introduction p. xii A Method of Criticism for Modern Architecture The Secret Life of Buildings The Representation of Perception p. 2 Gehry House, Frank O. Gehry and Associates The Anxiety of the Second Fall p. 30 House El Even Odd, Peter Eisenman The Sensibility of Silence p. 52 Four Leaf Towers, Cesar Pelli and Associates The Nature of the New Sublime p. 74 Portland Public Service Building, Michael Graves Scenography and the Picturesque p. 98 Bozzi House, Robert A. M. Stern The Continuity of the Classical p. 118 Manchester Superior, Court Building, Allan Greenberg The Ironies of the Difficult Whole p. 142 Gordon Wu Hall, Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown Epilogue p. 170 The City: A Machine for Thinking In Notes p. 182 Bibliography p. 192 Illustration Credits p. 200 Index p. 208