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The discipline of architecture / Andrzej Piotrowski and Julia Williams Robinson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural design--Philosophy.
- Architectural design.
- Architecture--Study and teaching.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays collected in this groundbreaking volume address the current state of architecture as an academic and professional discipline. Often critical of the current paradigm, these essays offer a provocative challenge to accepted assumptions about the production, dissemination, and reception of architectural knowledge.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction
- Julia Williams Robinson and Andrzej Piotrowski ix
- 1. Revisiting the Discipline of Architecture
- Thomas Fisher 1
- 2. Disciplining Knowledge: Architecture between Cube and
- Frame
- Michael Stanton 10
- 3. On the Practices of Representing and Knowing
- Architecture
- Andrzej Piotrowski 40
- 4. The Form and Structure of Architectural Knowledge:
- From Practice to Discipline
- Julia Williams Robinson 61
- 5. Architecture Is Its Own Discipline
- David Leatherbarrow 83
- 6. A Dialectics of Determination: Social Truth-Claims in
- Architectural Writing, 1970-1995
- David J. T. Vanderburgh and W. Russell Ellis 103
- 7. Unpacking the Suitcase: Travel as Process and Paradigm
- in Constructing Architectural Knowledge
- Kay Bea Jones 127
- 8. Environment and Architecture
- Donald Watson 158
- 9. Reinventing Professional Privilege as Inclusivity:
- A Proposal for an Enriched Mission of Architecture
- Sharon Egretta Sutton 173
- 10. Thinking "Indian" Architecture
- A. G. Krishna Menon 208
- 11. Interdisciplinary Visions of Architectural Education:
- The Perspectives of Faculty Women
- Linda N. Groat and Sherry Ahrentzen 235
- 12. A Framework for Aligning Professional Education and
- Practice in Architecture
- Carol Burns 260
- 13. Reduction and Transformation of Architecture in
- Las Vegas
- Garth Rockcastle 272
- 14. The Profession and Discipline of Architecture:
- Practice and Education
- Stanford Anderson 292.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9202-5
- OCLC:
- 476094983
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