Jørn Utzon and transcultural essentialism / Adrian Carter & Marja Sarvimäki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Adrian, 1959- author.

Sarvimäki, Marja, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utzon, Jørn, 1918-2008--Criticism and interpretation.

Utzon, Jørn.

Utzon, Jørn, 1918-2008.

Essentialism (Philosophy).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Adrian Carter, Architect MAA (DK), is Professor of Architecture at Bond University, Queensland, Australia, previously at the Aarhus School of Architecture and later Aalborg University, Denmark. Born in Southampton, the UK, he gained his Master of Architecture at Portsmouth School of Architecture, with further studies in Urban Design with Jan Gehl, at The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and Phenomenology in Architecture with Dalibor Vesely, at the University of Cambridge. He has worked with Reima Pietil,̃ Niels Torp, Henning Larsen, Ken Woolley, and Dissing+Weitling. A recognised expert with a PhD (The Utzon Paradigm) on the work of Jørn Utzon, he was the inaugural Director of the Utzon Research Center and responsible for the realisation of the Utzon Center building on the Aalborg harbourfront, designed by Jørn Utzon. Marja Sarvimk̃i, Architect SAFA, is Associate Professor at the Bond University in Australia. Previously she taught architectural history-theory and design studios at the University of Hawaii, USA. She was born in Helsinki, Finland, and earned her MArch and PhD at the Helsinki University of Technology (current Aalto University). She also has pursued studies on Japanese architecture at the Tokyo National University of Arts and conducted her post-doctoral research on Korean architecture at the Korea University. In addition to her doctoral dissertation, which comprised extensive fieldwork in East Asia, her work includes numerous later publications on East Asian cultures as well as architectural research methodology. Sarvimk̃i's current research focuses on modernism in the Asia-Pacific region.

Contents:

Craft tradition and embodied knowledge

The experience, inspiration of and work within other cultures

Thematic analysis

Transcultural essentialism: an emergent direction in architecture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Carter, Adrian, 1959- Jørn Utzon and transcultural essentialism

ISBN:

9781003094180

100309418X

1000457931

9781000457902

1000457907

9781000457933

Publisher Number:

40030926884

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