Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture by Andrew Atwood
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Category: Essays & theory
Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms: boring, confusing, ...Show more
The Thinking Hand by Juhani Pallasmaa
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Category: Essays & theory | Series: Architectural Design Primer Ser.
In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. 'The Thinking Hand' is ...Show more
Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Essays & theory
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a tr ...Show more
Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory by Adolfo Leah Jing; Aranjuez McIntosh
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Category: Essays & theory
In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query the past and envision new futures. They ask: How do we write or hold our former selves, our ancestries? How does where we come ...Show more
The Embodied Image - Imagination and Imagery in Architecture by Juhani Pallasmaa
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Category: Essays & theory | Series: Architectural Design Primer
Architecture is usually analyzed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image. Written by distinguished writer and architect Juhani Pallasmaa, this book examines at the image in culture; the nature of the image ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Essays & theory | Reading Level: good-very good
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
Introducing: Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers by David Erdman
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Category: Essays & theory
Introducing--a collection of eighteen short essays developed by designer and educator David Erdman--suggests that short-form writing might serve as the proper vehicle for architectural discourse to flourish in the 21st century. Speculating that concise pieces of information attributed to the blogging an ...Show more
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