Few Years of Writing Interspersed with Some Facts of Life

Name: Few Years of Writing Interspersed with Some Facts of Life
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ISBN: 9781908967077

ISBN-10: 1908967072

ISBN-13: 9781908967077

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert Maxwell, Anthony Vidler

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With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and discourse, RobertMaxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected architectural writers and educatorsof recent times. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, RobertMaxwell is a scholar known worldwide for critical writing that looks at modern andcontemporary architecture in relation to our wider culture, including art, literature andmusic.A Few Years of Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life brings togethera collection of over 30 of Maxwell's writings from the late twentieth century to thepresent, through which are woven events and occasions from his own diary thatexpand on debates in the world of…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Artifice Books on Architecture
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Robert Maxwell began using the camera at age 28, when his girlfriend gave him a Nikon F3. Now 39, maxwell has completed assignments for the most prestigious fashion magazine of out rime, including W, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Elle, and Interview. A former surfer from La Jolla, California, Maxwell is currently based in New York City.



Preface


Three Houses


The Design Centre in Kyoto


Richard Rogers e la macchina spaziale


Tours de Force


ï¿½ber Alles


Theoretical Practice


The Texas Rangers


A Critic Writes


A Few Words for Colin Rowe


9H, No. 9: On Continuity


Temple Bar Five Years On


Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture


Introduction of Van Heyningen and Haward


Sounds and Sweet Airs at Stuttgart


Rowing Museum at Henley


Transgressions: Crossing the Lines, at the Royal Academy


Introduction for John Tuomey


My Kind of Town: Aix-En-Provence


Translations from Drawing to Building, and Other Essays


Durability


Enlightenment: A Villa in Hampstead by Rick Mather Architects


Ecstatic Space


The Truth About the Myth


No.1 Poultry


Approaching the Void: Can the Tragic Appear in Architecture?


Critique of the Smithsons Without Rhetoric


Rowe in Memoriam


A Visit to Clare Hall


Book on Dixon Jones


Fingal County Hall, Dublin


Letter


Picasso and Duchamp


Visual History of C20 Architecture


Architecture: A Very Short Introduction


Looking Around


Architectural Reflections


Tracing Architecture


A House in Chelsea for an Art Collector


Double House in Hampstead


School of Architecture at Lincoln University


House Near Bargemon


Index Architecture


Obituary of Philip Johnson


School Conversion Hoxton Square


Louis I Kahn


Eisenman: The Formal Basis of Modem Architecture


The Peace Palace Library, The Hague


The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture


The Judicious Eye


Richard Meier: Complete Works


The Garden of Cosmic Speculation


Michael Wilford at Melsungen


Acknowledgements


Index


Image Credits