Cranbrook Architecture: A Legacy of Latitude

ISBN-13: 9781119834427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 136 str.

G Wilkins

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction Hive of Education: Reflections on a Model of Architectural EducationChapter 2 Evolution Over Revolution: Eliel Saarinen as Architect and EducatorChapter 3 Provoking the Outliers: Trajectories for the Near Future Drawn from the Enigmatic PastChapter 4 'The Unmeasurable': Lessons from CranbrookChapter 5 Schooling Fishy KnowledgeChapter 6 Postgraduate Architectural Education In SituChapter 7 Unprompted: Open-ended Investigations in the Choreography of ConstructionChapter 8 Building A Dream: Fertile Ground for Social GoodChapter 9 Unbuilding and the Recovery of Craft in Architecture: Cranbrook Department of Architecture 1986-1996Chapter 10 An Architecture of Marks: Reading Histories and Writing FuturesChapter 11 Methods of Inspiration: A Pedagogical Approach Based on SingularityChapter 12 The Interior Within Hand's Reach: Tactile ProximityChapter 13 Arrows: The Long Lines of Influence in ArchitectureChapter 14 Forming Action: The Subject in the ObjectChapter 15 The Agency of Making: An Anatomy of Practice-based PedagogyChapter 16 From Another Perspective - Adept and Apprentices: ContributorsAbout Architectural Design

O autorze

Gretchen Wilkins is the Head of Architecture / Architect-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has been practicing and teaching architecture for nearly twenty years based in Michigan, Australia and Vietnam. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and Associate Professor at RMIT University Melbourne & Ho Chi Minh City. At RMIT she served as Head of Department for Design, overseeing programs in Architecture, Fashion, Digital Media and Design Studies at the Vietnam campus, and was Program Director for the Master of Urban Design program based in Melbourne, Barcelona and Ho Chi Minh City. Her practice is interested in the making and unmaking of cities through design, manufacturing and mobility. This work has been supported by the Japan Foundation, Australia-China Council, James L. Knight Foundation and the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. She is the editor of Distributed Urbanism, Cities after Google Earth (Routledge), and has contributed to Architectural Design (AD), Princeton Architectural Press, the Storefront for Art & Architecture, Architecture Australia, the University College London and Architecture and Culture. Wilkins received her Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan and PhD in Architecture from RMIT University, Melbourne.