A question of qualities : essays in architecture / Jeffrey Kipnis, edited by Alexander Maymind.

A question of qualities : essays in architecture /

Jeffrey Kipnis's writing, thinking, and teaching casts architecture as both an intellectual discourse and a lived, affective experience. His essays on contemporary architects are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation. In these eleven essays, writ...

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Main Author: Kipnis, Jeffrey
Other Authors: Maymind, Alexander
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Series:Writing architecture.
Subjects:
Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Architecture, Modern > 21st century > Themes, motives.
Table of Contents:
  • A question of qualities
  • Exile on Ringstrasse ; excitations on Main Street
  • . . . and then, something magical
  • The cunning of cosmetics (a personal refelction on the architecture of Herzog & De Meuron)
  • Recent Koolhaas
  • Moneo's anxiety
  • Throwing stones
  • the incidental effects of a glass house
  • A time for freedom
  • Nolo contendere
  • /Twisting the separatrix/
  • Toward a new architecture.

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