Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   José de Paiva (Architect, Eric Parry Architects, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9781138640481

ISBN 10:   1138640484
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Preface Eric Parry The Living Tradition of Architecture Jose de Paiva ""Remembrance of Things Past"" Daniel Libeskind Part 1: The Background of Architecture as Living Tradition ""Prudentia non est Scientia"" Werner Oechslin Model, Type and the Great Church Joseph Rykwert Goethe Blindfolded Mari Hvattum Beauty, Nostalgia, Hope: The pulpit in Oppolding Karsten Harries Ideas on Movement in Architecture in Britain and France during the Eighteenth Century Robin Middleton Part 2: The Modern Transmission of Architectural Knowledge and Experience Towards an Ontological Architecture: A philosophical excursus Kenneth Frampton Modern Aesthetics and the Machine: Technology and the Gesamtkunstwerk in early twentieth-century Germany Gabriele Bryant Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and the Hermeneutic Imagination Alberto Perez-Gomez Rule and Law – Architecture and Nature: Kahn’s design for St Andrews Monastery David Leatherbarrow Part 3: Coming to Terms with the Conditions for Contemporary Practice ‘The Language of Stones’: Towards a situated architecture Dagmar Weston Tradition and Historicism in Caruso St John’s Remodeling of Tate Britain Christian Frost Civic Bodies: Lynch Architects at Victoria Street Patrick Lynch ""Half of it is not necessarily in ruins"" Stephen Witherford Curricula Vita Endnotes Index Image Credits Bibliography"

Reviews

Author Information

José de Paiva (editor), born in Lisbon, graduated from the Escola de Artes Decorativas Antonio Arroio in 1991, and from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon in 1997 (Lisbon School). He holds an MPhil and a PhD by the University of Cambridge and has taught at Cambridge, and more recently as Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (PennDesign). In London since 2012, he is the author of Fragments towards a Theology of Architecture (2015).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions