The architecture reader : essential writings from Vitruvius to the present / edited by A. Krista Sykes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sykes, Krista.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Architectural criticism.

Physical Description:

333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : George Braziller Publishers, 2007.

Summary:

Encompassing two thousand years of building history, The Architecture Reader brings together for the first time 40 key texts written by architects of international esteem. These writings address persistent concerns in architecture and design, including the role of the architect and the relationship of architecture to nature, art, and science. The carefully chosen texts provide a taste of the multiplicity that characterizes historical and contemporary views of architecture.

The selections are organized chronologically, and each is introduced by a helpful commentary that contextualizes the author and the salient issues covered in the piece. The excerpts appear in a variety of formats, including interviews, manifestos, lectures, and treatises, and are representative of the varied-and sometimes conflicting-approaches to building and design. In combination, they provide a fascinating overview of significant concepts within the field of architecture. At once accessible and thought provoking, this volume is ideal for a general audience and beginning architecture students.

Contents:

Vitruvius from The Ten Books on Architecture (ca. 25 B.C.E.) 32

/ Abbot Suger from The Book of Suger, Abbot of St.-Denis, On What Was Done Under His Administration and The Other Little Book on the Consecration of the Church of St.-Denis (1144-49) 42

/ Leon Battista Alberti from On the Art of Building in Ten Books (1846) 48

/ Andrea Palladio from The Four Books on Architecture (1570) 60

/ Claude Perrault from Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients (1683) 66

/ Etienne-Louis Boullee from Architecture, Essay on Art (1770-84) 73

/ Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc "Style," from Dictionnaire raisonne (1854-68) 80

/ Louis Sullivan "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered" (1908) 90

/ Frank Lloyd Wright "In the Cause of Architecture" (1908) 94

/ Adolf Loos "Ornament and Crime" (1908) 103

/ Antonio Sant'Elia "Manifesto of Futurist Architecture" (1944) 110

/ Geoffrey Scott from The Architecture of Humanism (1914) 117

/ Le Corbusier from Towards a New Architecture (1923) 122

/ Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret "Five Points cowards a New Architecture" (1926) 133

/ Walter Gropius "Principles of Bauhaus Production" (1926) 136

/ Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson from The International Style: Architecture since 1922 (1932) 142

/ R. Buckminster Fuller "Designing a New Industry" (1946) 152

/ Philip Johnson "The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture" (1955) 165

/ Louis I. Kahn "Form and Design" (1961) 172

/ Aldo van Eyck Untitled Thoughts on Place and Occasion (1962) 178

/ Peter Cook, Warren Chalk Editorial from Archigram 3 (1963) 181

/ Robert Venturi from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) 188

/ Aldo Rossi from The Architecture of the City (1966) 198

/ Denise Scott Brown "Learning from Pop" (1971) 206

/ Hassan Fathy from Architecture for the Poor (1973) 215

/ Peter Eisenman "Post-Functionalism" (1976) 222

/ Charles Jencks "Why Post-Modernism?" (1978) 230

/ Demetri Porphyrios "Classicism Is Not a Style" (1983) 236

/ Juhani Pallasmaa "The Geometry of Feeling: The Phenomenology of Architecture" (1985) 241

/ Bernard Tschumi "De-, Dis-, Ex-" (1989) 246

/ Rem Koolhaas "Bigness, or the Problem of Large" (1993) 256

/ Daniel Libeskind "Proof of Things Invisible" (1997) 264

/ Greg Lynn from Animate Form (1999) 269

/ Norman Foster "The Architecture of the Future" (1999) 276

/ Samuel Mockbee, Andrea Oppenheimer Dean "The Hero of Hale County" (2001) 280

/ William McDonough, Michael Braungart "This Book Is Not a Tree," from Cradle to Cradle (2002) 286

/ Andres Duany "General Agreement on Architecture and Related Matters" (2003) 294

/ Frank Gehry "Architecture and Intuition" (2003) 302

/ Sarah Whiting "Going Public" (2003) 306

/ Shumon Basar "The Poisonous Mixture" (2004) 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-333).

ISBN:

9780807615799

080761579X

9780807615805

0807615803

OCLC:

74029340