Building theories : integrating matter, energy, data, and labor for a new ethics of architecture /: integrating matter, energy, data, and labor for a new ethics of architecture. (2018)
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- Title:
- Building theories : integrating matter, energy, data, and labor for a new ethics of architecture /: integrating matter, energy, data, and labor for a new ethics of architecture. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Building theories : integrating matter, energy, data, and labor for a new ethics of architecture
- Further Information:
- Note: Franca Trubiano.
- Authors:
- Trubiano, Franca
- Contents:
- 1. Thinking through Building 1.1 Positing a Theory of Building 1.2 Theory’s problem with Technology 1.3 Theory seeks Autonomy In the Shadow of the Digital Conceptual Architecture Theory, in Oppositions 1.4 Is Theory Dead? Or, just Post-Critical? And then, we were Post-Digital 1.5 Building, in Theory 2. Building and the Treatise 2.1 Building in a word, Techné 2.2 Fabrica e Ratio – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 2.3 Mechanical Art, Disegno, or both? Building Artisan and Author – Averlino, detto Filarete Literary Scholar and Architect – Leon Battista Alberti Stone Mason and Humanist – Philibert de L’Orme 2.4 Ornamentalist and Carpenter – Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières 2.5 L’Art de Bien Bastir, that is the Art of Building Well 3. Architect as Builder and Thinker 3.1 Architecture as Fine Art or Building Art? The case of Jean Baptiste Rondelet Architecture, Essai sur l’Art Traité Théorique et Pratique de l’Art de Bâtir 3.2 Constructeur, Entrepreneur, ou Architecte 3.3 Trabeated or Arcuated? The Quarrel between a Clergyman and a Military Engineer 4. Matter(s) Hidden in Plain Sight 4.1 Eyes which do not see • In the Glare of the Forge • Alternatively, the Engineer’s Aesthetic 4.2 The Death of Matter? • Architecture in Ruins – Hubert Robert • Denial of Iron in Support of Builders – John Ruskin 4.3 or, The Composite Imagination • Structural Hybrids – Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Woven Surfaces – Gottfried Semper 5. Lost in Translation 5.1 Baukunst, the German Building Art The case of1. Thinking through Building 1.1 Positing a Theory of Building 1.2 Theory’s problem with Technology 1.3 Theory seeks Autonomy In the Shadow of the Digital Conceptual Architecture Theory, in Oppositions 1.4 Is Theory Dead? Or, just Post-Critical? And then, we were Post-Digital 1.5 Building, in Theory 2. Building and the Treatise 2.1 Building in a word, Techné 2.2 Fabrica e Ratio – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 2.3 Mechanical Art, Disegno, or both? Building Artisan and Author – Averlino, detto Filarete Literary Scholar and Architect – Leon Battista Alberti Stone Mason and Humanist – Philibert de L’Orme 2.4 Ornamentalist and Carpenter – Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières 2.5 L’Art de Bien Bastir, that is the Art of Building Well 3. Architect as Builder and Thinker 3.1 Architecture as Fine Art or Building Art? The case of Jean Baptiste Rondelet Architecture, Essai sur l’Art Traité Théorique et Pratique de l’Art de Bâtir 3.2 Constructeur, Entrepreneur, ou Architecte 3.3 Trabeated or Arcuated? The Quarrel between a Clergyman and a Military Engineer 4. Matter(s) Hidden in Plain Sight 4.1 Eyes which do not see • In the Glare of the Forge • Alternatively, the Engineer’s Aesthetic 4.2 The Death of Matter? • Architecture in Ruins – Hubert Robert • Denial of Iron in Support of Builders – John Ruskin 4.3 or, The Composite Imagination • Structural Hybrids – Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Woven Surfaces – Gottfried Semper 5. Lost in Translation 5.1 Baukunst, the German Building Art The case of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5.2 Style, Bauweise, und Tektonik In welchem Style sollen wir bauen? - Heinrich Hübsch Bauweise und Tektonik - Carl Gottlieb Wilhelm Bötticher 5.3 Baumeister and Baukunstler Praktische Ästhetik - Hendrick Petrus Berlage Stilarchitektur und Baukunst – Hermann Muthesius Moderne Architektur or Die Baukunst unserer der Zeit - Otto Wagner 5.4 Bau, Architecture’s Subconscious The Victory of the New Baustils – Walter Curt Behrendt Bauen, Architecture’s Zeitgeist – Sigfried Giedion 5.5 When Language Fails Building ; 6. From Aesthetics to Ethics, and back 6.1 Building, a Crisis in Representation 6.2 Architecture as Aesthetics, Language, or Re-presentation? • Aesthetics • Language • Re-presentation 6.3 The Ethics of Matter 6.4 A Return to the Art of Building, in Making, Craft, Details, Tectonics, Surfaces Metamorphosis, Maintenance, Error 7. Design and Construction - Walter Gropius and Ove Arup 7.1 Building Collaboratively - Walter Gropius Style or Society? Design Divorced from Building Artists who Make, at the Bauhaus and in Industry Teamwork and Genius Union of Opposites Naively Heroic or Falsely Utopic? Integrated Practice, the origins of 7.2 Engineering Total Design - Ove Arup The Key Speech Concrete, and the Material Imagination Spatializing the Structural Skin Integrating Systems in Building Sections Re-presenting the Invisible Architects, Engineers, and Builders - Engineering Total Design Musings of an old gentleman in a garden - "Architecture is sick, should it be revived?" 8 The Composite Mind Re-Builds Theory 8.1 The Composite Mind 8.2 Re-building Theory Index Bibliography List of Illustrations and Credits … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 724.7
Architecture, Modern -- Philosophy - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781317510338
9781317510345
9781317510321
9781315717555 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138859036
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