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The sniper's log : architectural perspective of generation-X / Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaera, Alejandro, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Aesthetics.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (592 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Barcelona ; New York, New York : Actar, [2012]
- Summary:
- The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, academic presentations...), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience that reveals that theory is here primarily instrumental and seeks efficiency rather than truth. We do not theorise because we want to understand the deep truths of the world, but because we need to organise the realm where we operate, understand how reality works and find an effective way to perform within it.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-945150-37-8
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