Building Theories: Architecture as the Art of Building

ISBN-13: 9781138859043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 632 str.

Franca Trubiano

Opis

This book explores significant and timely topics for both the design and construction of contemporary architecture by challenging its very practice of theory. It proposes an alternative definition of architectural theory; one that is able and willing to confront the many contradictions now faced by designers, architects, engineers, and builders who negotiate often overwhelming technological imperatives. It valorises the, as yet, untapped potential of thinking through building, preparing the foundations for a critical return to the art of making that is architecture.

Spis treści

1. Thinking through Building  2. Building and the Treatise  3. Architect as Builder and Thinker  4. Matter(s) Hidden in Plain Sight  5. Lost in Translation  6. From Aesthetics to Ethics, and back  7. Design and Construction - Walter Gropius and Ove Arup  8. The Composite Mind Re-Builds Theory  Bibliography  Index 

O autorze

Franca Trubiano is Associate Professor and Graduate Group Chair of the PhD program in Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania and a licensed architect with the Ordre des Architectes du Québec. She received graduate and post-graduate degrees from McGill University and a doctorate in the history and theory of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Previous publications include Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures (ORO, 2019) and Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (Routledge, 2013). She teaches and conducts research on forced labor in the built environment, emerging materials and human health, tectonic theories, integrated design, and architectural ecologies.