(Well) connected architecture /
An insight into the work of Ian Richie Architects, this text also provides an exploration into the design process and the wider forces which exist and determine the pluralism of contemporary architecture. A range of projects illustrate different aspects encountered by art and architecture.
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London :
Academy Editions,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Architecture meets Pluralism
- Architecture expressing freedoms rather than equalities
- Architecture, ecology and global economics
- Professionalism, ethics and morality
- The Mediatisation of Architecture
- The influence of the architectural press: pre-empting experience
- Exploiting the press: cheap publishing and propaganda
- The inevitability of individualisation and architectural heroes
- Smokescreens, populism and the avant-garde
- Change
- Change in the rate of change
- Directions of change
- Collaboration
- Barriers
- professional
- How we collaborate
- Collaborating
- Limits of democracy: convergence out of necessity
- Learning from Limehouse community
- Nature and Proportion
- Chaos and complexity
- Geometry, hierarchy and scale
- Art
- Preconcepts
- Essence
- Concepts
- Science and Technology
- Scientific understanding
- Numbers
- Materials
- Light
- The wonder of glass
- transparency
- Human Purpose
- Architecture and economics
- Compliance, conflict and reason
- The known and unknown user
- Function
- Form follows desire
- More from less
- Use and beauty
- Construction
- Triangle of confidence
- Skills
- Nuts and bolts
- Relationships and reality with industry
- Authenticity in Architecture
- Head, heart and hands
- Art, science and construction for human purpose
- eg, Herne-Sodingen Academy, Germany.