On the duty and power of architectural criticism / Kenneth Frampton [and many others] ; edited by Wilfried Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frampton, Kenneth.

Wang, Wilfried, editor.

Park Books, publisher.

University of Texas at Austin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural criticism.

Architecture--Congresses.

Architecture.

Architecture, European.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Essays.

Physical Description:

319 pages : many illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Zurich : Park Books ; Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, [2022]

Summary:

Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it have a duty to present evidence in the evaluation of a building? Or should it take on what architects say about their designs? In the context of a flat internet, should architectural criticism be able to define best practices? Does it wield the power over who is in and who is out? Architectural criticism is at a crucial juncture. While serious architecture struggles for recognition, much so-called architectural criticism is merely a poorly paid, decorative legitimation for hyperbolic practice. Incisive architectural criticism is rare, while the definition of criticism itself has become opaque. The 2021 International Conference on Architecture Criticism has gathered exceptional papers that define the purposes and methods of architectural criticism: What should be the ethical basis of architectural criticism? Can it be objective in the context of paid content? Should it outline ideal practices? Or what else should it do? All contributions in this book address either the duty or the power of architectural criticism. In both cases, the authors offer the outline of one analysis of an existing building. Incisive and thought-provoking, On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism provides concrete case studies for future generations of architectural critics.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: An Outline of Architectural Criticism / Wilfried Wang

The Power to Behold / Louise Noelle Gras

For a Historiography of Architectural Criticism / Paolo Scrivano

The Architect as Critic / Bias Constantopoulos

Architectural Curation: A Practice of Architectural Criticism / Zhang Ziyue

Translating Scale from Models to Buildings / Fernando Diez

In the Absence of Appropriateness: On the Need to Respect and Sustain Existing Places in Making Additions / Robert McCarter

In Praise of Urban Continuity: Siza's Re-creation of the Chiado / Ana Tostoes

1. Origins and Approaches: Architectural Criticism and the Politics of Architecture / Kenneth Frampton

A Critique of Building Construction: Tactics of "Resistance" in Pikionis's Acropolis Works / Kostas Tsiambaos

Paradigms of Design and Deep Readings: The Creative Emancipation of Critical Building Analysis / Caroline Voet

The Dominant Paradigm We Call Design / Kevin Low

Truth Content: SANAA's Rolex Learning Center / Christophe van Gerrewey

2. High Culture in Conflict: The End of Architectural Criticism? / Zheng Shiling

Niemeyer Do(o)med: Remembrances of Planes Past / Marcos Almeida

"The New MoMA": Architectural Criticism, 1979-2019 / Martin Hartung

On Lina Bo Bardi's Iconography: Three Drawings / Claudia Costa Cabral

Imported Starchitect in a Local Market / Seda Zafer

3. Criticism and Its Effects: The Role of Architectural Criticism in the Design of Twenty-first-century History Surveys / Ruth VerdeZein

Architectural Criticism in the Space for the Unexpected / Jasna Galjer

Aphaeresis and Urban Policies / Konstantinos Petrakos

Nineteen Verdicts on the Viking Ship Hall / Morten Birk Jorgensen

Architectural Criticism on Post-World War II Collective Housing: Complicity in a Historical Prejudice? / Carolina Chaves

4. Explicit Criticism: Architectural Criticism in the Emergent Urbanscapes of the Global South / Philippa Tumubweinee

"The Lightest Parliament in the World": Hans Schwippert's Bundeshaus (1949) / Lynnette Widder

Whose Architecture? Whose Criticism?: Applying Stakeholder Theory to the Process of Criticism / Alexandra Staub

The Lost Battle for Memory: The European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk and Architectural Criticism in Poland / Biazej Ciarkowski

The New Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture as a Case for Multi-perspectival Criticism in Contemporary Turkish Architecture / Batu Kepekcioglu

5. Critical Reflections: Critical Misfortune, Canonical Narratives, and the Failure of the Practical Sense: The UN-ECLAC Building in Santiago de Chile by Emilio Duhart (1960-1966) / Horacio Torrent

Critical Influence: The Influence of the Popular Architectural Critic on Architectural Decision-making / Kristen Harrison

In Search of the Latent Kairos of Architectural Form paolo conrad-bercah

The Squatting of Technology: A Twofold Continuum / Berna Gol.

Notes:

This book is published following the International Conference on Architectural Criticism held online on October 9, 10, 16, and 17, 2021.

ISBN:

9783038602712

303860271X

OCLC:

1354300269

Publisher Number:

9783038602712