Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics: Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781138588608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 274 str.

Graham Cairns

Opis

Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences.

Spis treści

Foreword by Murray Fraser.  Introduction.  Part 1: Interview Articles  The First of the Format  Part 2: Views from the United States and the United Kingdom  1. Noam Chomsky  2. Robert A. M. Stern  3. Peggy Deamer  4. Peter Nears  5. Stephen Hodder  6. Michael Sorkin  7. Paul Goldberger  8. Clare Devine  9. Daniel Libeskind  10. Steven Weir and Gareth Hepworth  11. Kenneth Frampton  Part 3: An International Perspective  Jonathan Woetzel  Index

O autorze

Graham Cairns is an internationally recognized academic and author. Based at Columbia University, New York, while writing this book, he is now Senior Honorary Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He is Director of the international research organization AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) and Executive Editor of its scholarly journal, Architecture_MPS. The author and editor of eight books on architecture as visual culture and as a socio-political construct, he has delivered keynote talks internationally and has published multiple articles in interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals.