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A retrospective on the influential career of Argentinian architect Jorge Silvetti. Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long career as both a designing architect and as an architectural teacher and theoretician. Born in Argentina, he was one of the founding members of Arquitectos Asociados, an experimental group formed by six advanced architecture students at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1965. In the early 1970s, while continuing his studies and lecturing at the University of California Berkley, Silvetti's association with Rodolfo Machado began, continuing until today as Machado Silvetti Associates with offices in Boston and Buenos Aires. Silvetti's teaching, projects, and writings have significantly shaped contemporary architectural discourse. Large, Lasting & Inevitable is a reflection on Jorge Silvetti's impactful five decades in architecture, set against the backdrop of fervent discussions about discourse, history, cultural politics, and practice today. Featuring a selection of Silvetti's seminal writings since the 1970s alongside engaging dialogues with Mark Lee, Erika Naginski, Elisa Silva, Nader Tehrani, and Alfredo Thiermann and Nicolás Delgado Alcega, the book illuminates foundational moments shaping contemporary thought. This journey through Silvetti's perspective is marked by his profound curiosity and clear understanding of architecture's vast issues and the tangible realities of building, offering readers a deep dive into the evolution and influence of his architectural ideology. AUTHOR: Jorge Silvetti, born 1942, is co-founder of Machado Silvetti Associates based in Boston and Buenos Aires and the Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, at Harvard Graduate School of Design. SELLING POINTS: . Features a selection of seminal writings from five decades by distinguished Argentinian-American architect Jorge Silvetti . Jorge Silvetti is one of the most revered architectural teachers and theoreticians . Jorge Silvetti's teaching, projects, and writings have significantly shaped contemporary architectural discourse around the world 200 colour, 30 b/w illustrations

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Author:   Jorge Silvetti
Publisher:   Park Books
Imprint:   Park Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.926kg
ISBN:  

9783038603740

ISBN 10:   3038603740
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   21 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword 9 Nicolás Delgado Alcega Prologue 15 Buenos Aires: Twelve Scenes from My Youth Jorge Silvetti Berkeley 49 Architecture: The Question of Method with Alfredo Thiermann 1. Times of Cultural Awakening 2. From Systems Theory to Structuralism 3. Architecture as Material Culture 4. Scholarship and the Architect 97 The Beauty of Shadows (1977) Harvard 117 Architecture: The Emergence of Discourse with Mark Lee 1. The GSD After Josep Lluís Sert 2. The GSD Under Gerald M. McCue 3. Schools of Thought and Common Projects 4. Architecture in the Research University 167 On Realism in Architecture (1978) 190 The Presence of the Past (1980) with Rodolfo Machado 194 Representation and Creativity in Architecture: The Pregnant Moment (1982) 205 Perspective and the Envious Longing for the Renaissance (1984) Sicily 215 Architecture: The Reconception of History with Erika Naginski 1. The Strata of Culture 2. The Ruin and the Creative Process 3. The Hereafter of Typology 4. The Architect and the Historian 273 Interactive Realms: The Bridge of San Francesco and the Palazzo Sant’Elia (1992) 281 The Bridge and the Palazzo: Urban Interventions and Social Representation (1992) South America 299 Architecture: The Purview of the Social with Elisa Silva 1. Cultural Forces That Invite Architecture 2. The Autonomy of Architecture 3. The Inevitability of Form Giving 341 Afterword to Unprecedented Realism (1995) with Rodolfo Machado 345 The Muses Are Not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture (2003) 360 Block That Metaphor! (2014) Boston 369 Architecture: The Making of a Practice with Nader Tehrani 1. The Emergence of a Cultural Practice 2. A Theory That Inhabits Practice 3. Sensibility and Authorial History 413 Vestiges of Cities Without Evil: The Case of the Territorio Guaraní (2014) with Graciela Silvestri 427 TYPE: Architecture’s Elusive Obsession and the Rituals of an Impasse (2017) 445 On Perspective, Anamorphosis, and Repositionings (2021) with Nicolás Delgado Alcega 457 Biographical Timeline 469 Complete Writings 473 Contributor Biographies 475 Image Credits

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Jorge Silvetti is cofounder of Machado Silvetti Associates, based in Boston and Buenos Aires, and the Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Nicolás Delgado Alcega is a principal with Rome-based architecture firm Alliata / Alcega, a founding editor of Harvard Graduate School of Design’s journal Pairs, and a lecturer at the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture in Seattle.

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