Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty - Couverture rigide

Maxwell, Robert

 
9781908967145: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty
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ISBN 10 : 1908967145 ISBN 13 : 9781908967145
Editeur : Artifice Books on Architecture, 2013

Synopsis

Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow is the second of two new books to be published by Artifice books on architecture by Professor Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. The first, A Few Years of Writing Interspersed with some Facts of Life, was published in autumn 2012. Adept at moving between the examination of modern and contemporary architecture, art, literature and music, Robert Maxwell is a respected scholar whose critical writings articulate the role architecture plays in contemporary culture. In Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow, Maxwell considers the notion of doubt encountered by the modern architect. In ten chapters that draw upon writers and topics as diverse and engaging as Andre Malraux and his concept of the Musée Imaginaire, Colin Rowe and his exploration of Mannerism in Modern Architecture as well as Rowe's book with Fred Koetter, Collage City, and examining works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Picasso and Duchamp and architects including James Stirling, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind, Maxwell steps effortlessly through a range of ideas and concepts, to create an engaging and provocative thesis.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow is the second of two new books to be published by Artifice books on architecture by Professor Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. The first, A Few Years of Writing Interspersed with some Facts of Life, was published in autumn 2012. Adept at moving between the examination of modern and contemporary architecture, art, literature and music, Robert Maxwell is a respected scholar whose critical writings articulate the role architecture plays in contemporary culture. In Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow, Maxwell considers the notion of doubt encountered by the modern architect. In ten chapters that draw upon writers and topics as diverse and engaging as Andre Malraux and his concept of the Musée Imaginaire, Colin Rowe and his exploration of Mannerism in Modern Architecture as well as Rowe's book with Fred Koetter, Collage City, and examining works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Picasso and Duchamp and architects including James Stirling, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind, Maxwell steps effortlessly through a range of ideas and concepts, to create an engaging and provocative thesis.

Revue de presse

This is a magisterial volume by no less than the current leading transatlantic architectural historian and critic [...] The book explores this manifold saga with a searching series of in depth observations, which, with nine chapters plus a preface by Eric Parry and introduction by Adrian Forty, add up to a major work. --Studio International

This then is a book that revives faith in a living criticism, one not over-weighted with post-structural apparatus but one that is deeply indebted to the insights of literature and the arts, not to speak of poetry and painting. --The Architectural Review

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Éditeur
Artifice Books on Architecture
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1908967145
ISBN 13 
9781908967145
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
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