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Portfolio and the Diagram Architecture, Discourse, and Modernity in America

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ISBN-10: 0262661950

ISBN-13: 9780262661959

Edition: 2002

Authors: Hyungmin Pai

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This is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the images of architectural publications. Architects do not use the photographs of magazines in the same way that 19th-century architects mobilized the drawings in the grand folios.
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Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 430
Size: 7.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Portfolio and Academic Discourse: Formation and Crisis
Discourse, Mass Architecture and the Academic Profession
The Discursive Formation of Mass Architecture and the Academic Profession
The Portfolio and the Architectural Journal
The Portfolio and the Academic Discipline
Seeing, Reading, and Drawing: The Discursive Practice of the Portfolio
Composition and the Paradox of Academic Theory
Planning and the "Theory of the Plan"
The Crisis of the Academic Profession
The Architectural Profession in the 1910s: Crisis and Response
Business, Efficiency, and Functional Planning
The Search for a New Discipline
The Fragmentation of the Academic Discipline
The Changing Ideas of Composition and the Demise of the Analytique
Form versus Function: The Debates of the 1920s
Frederick Ackerman, Lewis Mumford, and the Predicament of Form
Frederick Ackerman and the Logic of Regressive Rationality
Lewis Mumford and the Search for Authentic Form
The Cognitive Project of the Architectural Journals
The Consumerist Project of American Architect
The Cognitive Project of Architectural Record
The Discourse of the Diagram
Scientific Management and the Discourse of the Diagram
Scientific Management and the Birth of the Functional Diagram
From Scientific Management to Architecture: The Discursive Formation of the Architectural Diagram
New Genres and New Formations
Architectural Graphic Standards and the Modern Reference Manual
The Reconfiguration of the Architectural Journal
The Dislocation of the Architectural Discipline
The Diagram as Plan, the Plan as Diagram
The Displacements of Photographic Discourse
Epilogue: The Instrument of Modern Architecture
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index