Architecture Constructed

Notes on a Discipline

Professor Mark Jarzombek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-32611-8 (ISBN)

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Leading architectural theorist and historian Mark Jarzombek explores the persistent conflict between those who design and those who build in classical, modern, and contemporary architecture.

Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton—between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persisting through Classical and Renaissance times to the present day, and yet it has rarely been addressed through a historical and theoretical lens.

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature of the history of architecture. He reveals architecture to be a troubled, interconnected realm, incomplete and unstable, where labor, craft, and occupation are the ‘invisible’ complements to the work of the architect.

Erudite, entertaining, and full of surprising and thought-provoking juxtapositions and challenges, Architecture Constructed is packed with novel insights into the internal conflicts and paradoxes of architecture, and is rich with examples from modern and contemporary practice—including Mies, Koolhaas, Potrc, Hadid, Bawa, Diller + Scofidio—which demonstrate how contemporary architecture inhabits the very same tensions that have riven the discipline since the days of Alberti.

This provocative book will stimulate conversations among students, researchers, and designers, as it pushes the boundaries on how we define the professional discipline of architecture and overturns entrenched assumptions about the nature of architectural history and theory.

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has published widely on many historical and theoretical topics, and is one of the discipline’s leading advocates for global history, publishing several books and articles on that topic including the ground-breaking textbook A Global History of Architecture (co-authored with Prakash and Ching, 2006).

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Part 1
1: Preface
2: Arche-Tekton
3: Shell Games

Part 2
1: Befores and Afters
2: Dialectics of (In)Completion
3: Post-Teleology

Part 3
1: The Curse of Socrates
2: Occupationality
3: Faber Ingenium

Part 4
1: ’Architecture’
2: Anamorphic Realism

Part 5
1: Arche-Soci(arche)ology
2: Arche-2
3: Laugier's Haunts

Part 6
1: Tekton-Topia

Part 7
1: Master-Builder
2: Tekton Libidinalism
3: ‘Construction’

De-Positioning

Postscript
List of Credits

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	201 color illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Gewicht	819 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-32611-9 / 1350326119
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32611-8 / 9781350326118
Zustand	Neuware