Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow Learning to Live with Uncertainty

Name: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow Learning to Live with Uncertainty
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ISBN: 9781908967145

ISBN-10: 1908967145

ISBN-13: 9781908967145

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert Maxwell

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Robert Maxwell is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, an internationally respected scholar whose critical writings articulate the role architecture plays hi contemporary culture. Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to live With uncertainty sees Maxwell consider the notion of 'doubt' encountered by the modern architect, moving between the examination of modern and contemporary architecture, art, literature and music. In nine chapters that draw upon writers and topics as diverse and engaging as André Malraux and his concept of the Musée Imaginaire, Colin Rowe and his exploration of "Mannerism in Modern Architecture", as well as Rowe's book with Fred Koetter,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Artifice Books on Architecture
Publication date: 9/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 7.70" wide x 10.50" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.958
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



Introduction




Claude Perrault and the Orders of Architecture



The Animated Archive



Taking from the Archive



Rowe and Mannerism in Modern Architecture



Rowe's Urbanism: The Triumph of Common Sense



Functionalism and the Avant-garde



Questions that Remain



Stirling's Theory: The Critical Act


Conclusion: The Age of Uncertainty


Acknowledgements


Image Credits


Index