Bureaucracy : there is no building without regulations and good architecture doesn't always follow the rules / Salomon Frausto, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frausto, Salomon.

Series:

Hunch ; no. 12.

Hunch, 1567-9837 ; no. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and state.

Standards, Engineering.

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm.

Other Title:

Hunch: the Berlage Institute report on architecture, urbanism, and landscape ; no. 12

Hunch 12

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Uitgevers/The Berlage Institute, 2009.

Summary:

"From governmental regulations and new organizational models for professional practice to contrasting forms of urbanism and divergent interpretations of economic value in relation to cultural capital, the authors focus on how select determinants affect the built environment. At the same time they offer architectural speculations, critical observations, and historical perspectives to rethink these processes in order to influence the buildings and cities of today and tomorrow. Along with these topical contributions - which are supplemented by marginalia of short stories, annotations, terminologies, and inventories - four 1,000-word texts and a visual essay complement the issue to reflect on broader theoretical aspects of architecture culture."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Salomon Frausto

The magic stove: Soyer, Barry and the Reform Club / Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen

Money and meaning: the case of John Portman / Reinhold Martin

A repertoire for dissensus, episodes from the wrong story / Keller Easterling

From Koolhaas's "The Generic City" to "Junkspace" / Antoni Negri

In sequence: cinematic perception in Learning From Las Vegas / Martino Stierli

"So much damned bad work": notes on the productio nof McKim, Mead & White / Pier Paolo Tamburelli

Faxes from the future / Michael Cadwell

An excerpt from out of practice / Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP Architectus

(Re)Writing the city: an assessment of Brasilia's legacy / Martino Tattara

The rule of regulations / Finn Williams, David Knight

The architecture of bureaucracy and the architecture of genius / Henry-Russell Hitchcock [essay first published in 1947 in Architectural Review, introduced by Joan Ockman]

Photographic survey: An Architectonic panorama / Roel Backaert.

Notes:

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9056626906

9789056626907

OCLC:

518341942