The discipline of architecture / / Andrzej Piotrowski and Julia Williams Robinson, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 721/.01
• Soggetto topico: Architectural design - Philosophy; Architecture - Study and teaching
• 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: 1. Revisiting the discipline of architecture / Thomas Fisher -- ; 2. Disciplining knowledge : architecture between cube and frame / Michael Stanton -- ; 3. On the practices of representing and knowing architecture / Andrzej Piotrowski -- ; 4. The form and structure of architectural knowledge : from practice to discipline -- ; 5. Architecture is its own discipline / David Leatherbarrow -- ; 6. A dialectics of determination : social truth-claims in architectural writing, 1970-1995 / David J.T. Vanderburgh ; and W. Russell Ellis -- ; 7. Unpacking the suitcase : travel as process and paradigm in constructing architectural knowledge / Kay Bea Jones -- ; 8. Environment and architecture / Donald Watson -- ; 9. Reinventing professional privilege as inclusivity : a proposal for an enriched mission of architecture / Sharon Egretta Sutton -- ; 10. Thinking "Indian" architecture / A.G. Krishna Menon -- ; 11. Interdisciplinary visions of architectural education : the perspectives of faculty women / Linda N. Groat ; and Sherry Ahrentzen -- ; 12. A framework for aligning professional education and practice in architecture / Carol Burns -- ; 13. Reduction and transformation of architecture in Las Vegas / Garth Rockcastle -- ; 14. The professional and discipline of architecture : practice and education / Stanford Anderson.
• 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.: 9910784399503321
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