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The architecture reader : essential writings from Vitruvius to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sykes, Krista
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : George Braziller Publishers, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Architecture.
Architectural criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The ten books on architecture / Vitruvius (circa 25 B.C.E.)
  • The book of Suger, Abbot of St.-Denis, on what was done under his administration and The other little book on the consecration of the Church of St.-Denis / Abbot Suger (1144-1149)
  • On the art of building in ten books / Leon Battista Alberti (1486)
  • The four books on architecture / Andrea Palladio (1570)
  • Ordonnance for the five kinds of columns after the method of the ancients / Claude Perrault (1683)
  • Architecture, essay on art / Etienne-Louis Boullée (1770-84)
  • "Style," in Dictionaire raisonné / Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1854-68)
  • "The tall office building artistically considered" / Louis Sullivan (1896)
  • "In the cause of architecture" / Frank Lloyd Wright (1908)
  • "Ornament and crime" / Adolf Loos (1908)
  • "Manifesto of Futurist architecture" / Antonio Sant'Elia (1914)
  • The architecture of humanism / Geoffrey Scott (1914)
  • Towards a new architecture / Le Corbusier (1923)
  • "Five points towards a new architecture" / Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (1926)
  • "Principles of Bauhaus production" / Walter Gropius (1926)
  • The International Style: architecture since 1922 / Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson (1932)
  • "Designing a new industry" / R. Buckminster Fuller (1946)
  • "The seven crutches of modern architecture" / Philip Johnson (1955)
  • "Form and design" / Louis Kahn (1961)
  • Untitled thoughts on place and occasion / Aldo van Eyck (1962)
  • Editorial from Archigram 3 / Peter Cook and Warren Chalk (1963)
  • Complexity and contradiction in architecture / Robert Venturi (1966)
  • The architecture of the city / Aldo Rossi (1966)
  • "Learning from Pop" / Denise Scott Brown (1971)
  • Architecture for the poor / Hassan Fathy (1973)
  • "Post-functionalism" / Peter Eisenman (1976)
  • "Why post-modernism?" / Charles Jencks (1978)
  • "Classicism is not a style" / Demetri Porphyrios (1983)
  • "The geometry of feeling: the phenomenology of architecture" / Juhani Pallasmaa (1985)
  • "De -, dis -, ex -" / Bernard Tschumi (1989)
  • "Bigness or the problem of large" Rem Koolhaas (1993)
  • "Proof of things invisible" / Daniel Libeskind (1997)
  • Animate form / Greg Lynn (1999)
  • "The architecture of the future" / Norman Foster (1999)
  • "The hero of Hale County" / Samuel Mockbee, interview by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean (2001)
  • "This book is not a tree," in Cradle to cradle / William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002)
  • "General agreement on architecture and related matters" / Andrés Duany (2003)
  • "Architecture and intuition" / Frank Gehry (2003)
  • "Going public" / Sarah Whiting (2003)
  • "The poisonous mixture" / Shumon Basar (2004).