Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts. With forty essays by an international cast of leading architectural academics, this accessible single source text on the topical subject of architectural criticism is ideal for undergraduate as well as post graduate study.
Author(s): Rendell Hill Do
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 368
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustration credits......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Introduction: Critical architecture: between criticism and design......Page 22
Criticism/Negation/Action......Page 30
Introduction: Criticism/Negation/Action......Page 32
Criticality and Operativity......Page 35
Unfinished Business: The historical project after Manfredo Tafuri......Page 43
Architecture as Critical Knowledge......Page 52
Passing Through Deconstruction: Architecture and the project of autonomy......Page 61
A Critical Position for Architecture?......Page 69
Militant Architecture Destabilising architecture’s disciplinarity......Page 78
Architecture’s Critical Context: The Athens activist experiment......Page 88
Criticism in/and/of Crisis: The Australian context......Page 97
Architecture-Writing......Page 106
Introduction: Architecture-Writing......Page 108
The DROWNING METHOD: On giving an account in practice-based research......Page 113
The Poetics of Urban Inscription: From metaphorical cognition to counter-representation......Page 124
Critical Action and Active Criticism......Page 133
Film as Spatial Critique......Page 136
Architectural History, Friendship and Filmed Conversations......Page 145
Image, Text, Architecture: The presence that ‘WAS HERE’......Page 150
Fluttering Butterflies, a Dusty Road, and a Muddy Stone: Criticality in distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004)......Page 156
Memoirs: It will have happened already......Page 164
Site-Writing: Enigma and embellishment......Page 171
Criticism by Design......Page 184
Introduction: Criticism by design......Page 186
Centuries of Ambiguity: Sublime and beautiful weather at the Farnsworth House......Page 191
Immediate Architecture......Page 203
Alvin Boyarsky’s Delicatessen......Page 211
Out of the Salon: With Natalie Barney towards a critically queer architecture......Page 221
Writing About Things and the Doing of Them......Page 227
Quilting Jakarta......Page 236
Where is the Project?: Cedric Price on architectural action......Page 241
The Fall: The allegorical architectural project as a critical method......Page 246
On Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas......Page 258
The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture......Page 268
Introduction: The cultural context of critical architecture......Page 270
‘I Mean to be Critical, But …’......Page 273
Critical Post-Critical: Problems of effect, experience and immersion......Page 282
A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation......Page 290
Three Scenarios for a Critical Architecture of Desert Mobility......Page 300
The Responsive City......Page 309
China as a Global Site: In a critical geography of design......Page 322
Critical Practice......Page 330
Architecture for an ‘Active Edge’: The Gateway, Derby......Page 339
Neuland: Disenchanted utopias for Tel Aviv......Page 346
Beyond Koolhaas......Page 353
Index......Page 361
