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Titolo: | The discipline of architecture [[electronic resource] /] / Andrzej Piotrowski and Julia Williams Robinson, editors |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
Disciplina: | 721/.01 |
Soggetto topico: | Architectural design - Philosophy |
Architecture - Study and teaching | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | PiotrowskiAndrzej RobinsonJulia W |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-329) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction -- Julia Williams Robinson and Andrzej Piotrowski ix -- 1. Revisiting the Discipline of Architecture -- Thomas Fisher 1 -- 2. Disciplining Knowledge: Architecture between Cube and -- Frame -- Michael Stanton 10 -- 3. On the Practices of Representing and Knowing -- Architecture -- Andrzej Piotrowski 40 -- 4. The Form and Structure of Architectural Knowledge: -- From Practice to Discipline -- Julia Williams Robinson 61 -- 5. Architecture Is Its Own Discipline -- David Leatherbarrow 83 -- 6. A Dialectics of Determination: Social Truth-Claims in -- Architectural Writing, 1970-1995 -- David J. T. Vanderburgh and W. Russell Ellis 103 -- 7. Unpacking the Suitcase: Travel as Process and Paradigm -- in Constructing Architectural Knowledge -- Kay Bea Jones 127 -- 8. Environment and Architecture -- Donald Watson 158 -- 9. Reinventing Professional Privilege as Inclusivity: -- A Proposal for an Enriched Mission of Architecture -- Sharon Egretta Sutton 173 -- 10. Thinking "Indian" Architecture -- A. G. Krishna Menon 208 -- 11. Interdisciplinary Visions of Architectural Education: -- The Perspectives of Faculty Women -- Linda N. Groat and Sherry Ahrentzen 235 -- 12. A Framework for Aligning Professional Education and -- Practice in Architecture -- Carol Burns 260 -- 13. Reduction and Transformation of Architecture in -- Las Vegas -- Garth Rockcastle 272 -- 14. The Profession and Discipline of Architecture: -- Practice and Education -- Stanford Anderson 292. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The essays collected in this groundbreaking volume address the current state of architecture as an academic and professional discipline. Often critical of the current paradigm, these essays offer a provocative challenge to accepted assumptions about the production, dissemination, and reception of architectural knowledge. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The discipline of architecture |
ISBN: | 0-8166-9202-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451720403321 |
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