Architecture history and theory in reverse : from an information age to eras of meaning / Jassen Callender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callender, Jassen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Architecture--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part I begins with present-day attitudes about architecture and traces them back to seminal ideas from the beginning of the twentieth century. Part II examines how pre-twentieth-century societies designed and understood architecture, how they strove to create communal physical languages, and how their disagreements set the stage for our information age practices. Architecture History and Theory in Reverse includes 45 black-and-white images and will be useful to students of architecture and literature.

Contents:

part, I Architecture in an Information Age / Jassen Callender

chapter Introduction / Jassen Callender

chapter Epilogue

Today, in the Beginning … / Jassen Callender

chapter 1 Twenty-First-Century Trajectories / Jassen Callender

chapter 2 Modernity’s Legacy in a New Millennium / Jassen Callender

chapter 3 A Postmodern Profession, Circa 1991 / Jassen Callender

chapter 4 Formal or Phenomenological

A Feud over Information / Jassen Callender

chapter 5 Deconstruction, Irony, the Pompidou, and the São Pedro / Jassen Callender

chapter 6 Mies van der Rohe in Chicago / Jassen Callender

chapter 7 Language Games / Jassen Callender

chapter 8 Loos and the Ascension of Space in the Marketplace / Jassen Callender

chapter Interlude

The Information Reformation, or This Killed That / Jassen Callender

part, II Architecture in Eras of Meaning / Jassen Callender

chapter 9 16 June 1904

Ulysses and The Uncanny / Jassen Callender

chapter 10 Marx, Meaning, and Matter / Jassen Callender

chapter 11 Exchange and Evolution / Jassen Callender

chapter 12 In what style?

Epistemes and Monsters / Jassen Callender

chapter 13 The Précis and the Paternity of Perception / Jassen Callender

chapter 14 De Sade Versus Descartes

Competing Conceptions of Language / Jassen Callender

chapter 15 The Tense of Abstract Nouns / Jassen Callender

chapter 16 Vitruvian Cycles 1

Representations Against Space / Jassen Callender

chapter 17 Vitruvian Cycles 2

Physical Language and Shared Experience / Jassen Callender

chapter Prologue: Babel… / Jassen Callender.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-33974-6

1-315-66131-4

1-317-33973-8

9781315661315

OCLC:

993991761