Crucial words : conditions for contemporary architecture / edited by Gert Wingardh and Rasmus Wrn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wingårdh, Gert, 1951-

Wrn, Rasmus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (107 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhauser, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden's most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles.

The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and singular and partly global and universal. Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. What are the pivotal themes? Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden's most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists such as Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, and Wilfried Wang. A special highlight is the text by Nobel laureate Ohran Pamuk. Die Voraussetzungen, unter welchen heutige Architektur entsteht, sind teils lokal und einmalig bedingt, teils sind sie von globaler und allgemeingültiger Natur. Zeitgenössische Architektur verstehen heisst, all diese Aspekte verstehen. Welches sind dabei die entscheidenden Themen? Gert Wingårdh und Rasmus Wærn, Schwedens aktivster Architekt beziehungsweise bekanntester Architekturkritiker, haben sich diese Frage gestellt und eine kritische Auswahl von rund 50 Begriffen getroffen, etwa Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, Wheelchair. Dadurch ist ein ganz spezielles, witzig illustriertes Begriffs-Wörterbuch entstanden, mit Originalbeiträgen von so interessanten Protagonisten wie etwa Denise Scott Brown, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, Wilfried Wang; ein besonderes Highlight ist der Text von Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction

Crucial words

Architects / Fuksas, Massimiliano / Fuksas, Elisa

Atmosphere / Jaeger, Falk

Body / Sowa, Axel

City Branding / Ward, Janet

Competitions / Wang, Wilfried

Computer / Rückauer, Jaime Salazar

Concept / Almaas, Ingerid Helsing

Corporate / Adams, Nicholas

Desire / Palmer, Henrietta

Doers / Edblad, Jonas

Europe / Ibelings, Hans

Everyday / Brown, Denise Scott

Experiment / Brayer, Marie-Ange

Formalism / Treib, Marc

Future / Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Globalization / Thau, Carsten

Humanism / Gabrielsson, Catharina

Landscape / Schäfer, Robert

Memory / Pallasmaa, Juhani

Modernity / Ibelings, Hans

Nature / Sörlin, Sverker

Nordic / Lund, Nils-Ole

Organic / Jones, Peter Blundell

Ornament / Scalbert, Irénée

Photography / Lantz, Maria

Slit / Linton, Johan

Technology / Rykwert, Joseph

Tradition / Lampugnani, Vittorio Magnago

Transformation / Bergquist, Mikael

Wheelchair / Nilsson, Fredrik

Why / Pamuk, Orhan

The authors

The editors

Art and photography

Contents

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

3-0346-1057-2

OCLC:

823580401