Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History: The Architect as Physical Historian

ISBN-13: 9781859469729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Jonathan Hill

Opis

Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil.

Spis treści

Editor’s Introduction; Architects of Fact and Fiction; The Architectural History of Civilisation and My Design; Amateurs, Detectives, and Acupuncturists; Apartheid’s Architects; Drawing Together; Learning from La Vedette: Reconstructing Viollet-le-Duc’s Alpine Study in Lausanne; Soft Memory; Between the Borders of Utopia: Towards a Construction of Time; Explore, Restore, Ignore—Etymology and Continuity in Design; A Monument is a Verb: Parallel Geographies, Choreographies, Atmospheres and Other Forms of Monument; Final Word

O autorze

Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme and tutors MArch Unit 12. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006), Weather Architecture (2012), A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (2016), and The Architecture of Ruins (2019); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture – the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).