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Auteur(s) : Kipnis, Jeffrey
Titre(s) : A question of qualities [Texte imprimé] : essays in architecture / Jeffrey Kipnis ; edited by Alexander Maymind
Publication : Cambridge : The MIT Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (352 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm
Collection : (Writing architecture series)
Lien à la collection : Writing architecture
Comprend : A question of qualities ; Exile on Ringstrasse ; excitations on Main Street ; ...
and then, something magical ; The cunning of cosmetics (a personal refelction on
the architecture of Herzog 惞 Meuron) ; Recent Koolhaas ; Moneo's anxiety ; Throwing
stones: the incidental effects of a glass house ; A time for freedom ; Nolo contendere
; /Twisting the separatrix/ ; Toward a new architecture.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 323-346. Index
Jeffrey Kipnis's writing, thinking, and teaching casts architecture as both an intellectual
discourse and a lived, affective experience. His essays on contemporary architects
are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation.
In these eleven essays, written between 1990 and 2008, he considers projects, concepts,
and buildings by some of the most recognized architects working today, with special
attention to the productions of affect. He explores "intuition" in the work of Morphosis,
"exhilaration" in Coop Himmelb(l)au, "freedom" in the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA,
"magic" in Steven Holl's buildings, and "anxiety" in Rafael Moneo's writing about
contemporary architecture. Kipnis's deft integration of art, critical theory, philosophy,
pop culture, classical music, and science -- what the volume's editor Alexander Maymind
calls "ancillary material"--Into a rigorous architectural theory and criticism makes
A Question of Qualities an exemplar of a new way to write about architecture. It is
also a distinct pleasure to read. Kipnis transcends the fractious intellectual climate
in architecture, stepping outside the boundaries mandated by the vast specialized
criteria that the discipline now claims to address. The essays in this volume demonstrate
a style of writing that is not so much about architecture as it is an affect of architecture
itself
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Maymind, Alexander. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Architecture -- Philosophie
Numéros : ISBN 9780262519557. - ISBN 0262519550 (br.)
Notice n° :
FRBNF45028244
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