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Critical Architecture

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ISBN-10: 0203945662

ISBN-13: 9780203945667

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jane Rendell, Mark Dorrian, Murray Fraser, Jonathan Hill

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 348
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.69" long
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Introduction: �Critical Architecture: Between Criticism and Design�
Criticism/Negation/Action
Introduction
�Criticality and Operativity�
�Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri�
�Architecture as Critical Knowledge�
�Passing through Deconstruction�
�Utopia, Critique, and Contemporary Discourse�
�Militant Architecture: Destabilising Architecture's Disciplinarity�
�Architecture's Critical Context: The Athens� Activist Experiment�
�Criticism in/and/of Crisis�
Architecture-Writing
Introduction
�The Drowning method: On Giving an Account in Practice-Based Research�
�The Poetics of Urban Inscription: From Metaphorical Cognition to Counter-Representation�
�Critical Action and Active Criticism�
�Film as Spatial Critique�
�Architectural History, Friendship and Filmed Conversations�
�Image, Text, Architecture: The Presence that "WAS HERE"�
�Fluttering Butterflies, a Dusty Road, and a Muddy Stone: Criticality in Distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004)�
�Memoirs: It will have already happened�
�Site-Writing: Enigma and Embellishment�
Criticism by Design
Introduction
�Centuries of Ambiguity: Sublime and Beautiful Weather at the Farnsworth House�
�Immediate Architecture�
�Alvin Boyarsky's Delicatessen�
�Out of the Salon � with Natalie Barney towards a Critically Queer Architecture�
�Writing about Things and the Doing of Them�
�Quilting Jakarta�
�Where is the Project? Cedric Price on Architectural Action�
�The Fall: The Allegorical Architectural Project as a Critical Method�
�On Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas�
Cultural Context
Introduction
�I Mean to be Critical, But...�
�Critical Post-Critical: Problems of Effect, Experience and Immersion�
�A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation�
�Three Scenarios for a Critical Architecture of Desert Mobility�
�The Responsive City�
�China as a Global Site: in a Critical Geography of Design�
�Critical Practice�
�Architecture for an Active Edge: the Gateway, Derby�
�Neuland: Disenchanted Utopias for Tel Aviv�
�Beyond Koolhaas�