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| Compiling 13 articles from Harvard Design Magazine by theorists and architects from North America and Europe, Saunders, editor of the magazine, presents a volume on the goals of architecture at the beginning of the twenty-first century: efficacy, innovation, and realism. Articles, written from 1998 to 2006, engage or criticize architecture's move toward popular culture in the 1990s, and discuss modernism, the architects' work and the future of design (Philippe Starck, Stan Allen, Hal Foster, and Kenneth Frampton weigh in), the integration of landscape, the concept of criticality, graphic designer Bruce Mau's exhibition Massive Change, and trends such as programism and thematization. They also describe the work of emerging firms in the Netherlands, England, and others. Two of the essays originally appeared elsewhere, and some were first presented as lectures or speeches. There is no index. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying transformations of the skylines of Shanghai and Dubai, public awareness of architecture and design has perhaps never been higher. At the same time, architecture itself is undergoing an identity crisis as it confronts fundamental issues: the effect of digital technology on design, the pervasive impact of global capitalism, and whether to embrace or resist popular media and taste.
The New Architectural Pragmatism collects the most provocative, penetrating, and influential attempts by leading theorists and practitioners in the field to define what architectural practice should be at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Written in the aftermath of modernism's utopian impulse and postmodernism's detached playfulness, the essays gathered here express and critique a new spirit of cultural and political engagement with contemporary society.
Interrogating the architect's social responsibility, the contributors deliberate about how much we should ask of architecture and suggest that in the coming century, architecture must be at once flexible and robust, responsive and self-directed.
Contributors: Stan Allen; George Baird; Lucy Bullivant; James Corner; Hal Foster; Kenneth Frampton; K. Michael Hays; Dave Hickey; Robert Levit; Evonne Levy; Reinhold Martin; Jorge Silvetti; Robert Somol; Philippe Starck; Roemer van Toorn; Sarah Whiting; Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is the editor of four previous Harvard Design Magazine Readers, published by Minnesota. |
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