Totems rassemble dix textes d'Irénée Scalbert, historien et critique d'architecture franco-britannique. Écrits entre 2001 et 2025, ils témoignent de son engagement critique constant envers l'architecture et ses contextes culturels. Ces essais, de longueurs et de styles variés - allant de l'observation concise à l'analyse approfondie - retracent l'évolution de sa pensée en tant que critique, enseignant et acteur du discours architectural. Organisé thématiquement en sections consacrées aux bâtiments, aux villes et à l'environnement, le recueil dessine également, de manière informelle, un parcours autobiographique. Les premiers textes reflètent les années de formation de Scalbert à Londres, à une époque de bouleversements architecturaux, marquées par les bâtiments de James Stirling et Norman Foster, des figures influentes telles qu'Aldo Rossi, et ses liens étroits avec des contemporains comme Peter St John (Caruso St John Architects) et Tom Emerson et Stephanie Macdonald (6a architects). Les textes plus tardifs abordent les questions d'urbanisme et de nature, ainsi que le sens et la signification de l'architecture contemporaine, d'une manière plus vaste sur les plans géographique et conceptuel, et d'un point de vue personnel, parfois spéculatif.
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Irénée Scalbert is a French-born architect, historian, and critic based in London. His work critically examines post war European architecture and its intersections with landscape, ornament, and social meaning.
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Paperback. Etat : New. 1. Totems and Other Essays brings together 14 texts by architect, historian, and critic Irénée Scalbert. Written between 1998 and 2025, they reflect nearly three decades of critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. Ranging in length and register-from concise meditations to extended analytical essays-the collection captures the evolution of Scalbert's thinking as a critic, teacher, and participant in architectural discourse.Organised thematically into sections on buildings, cities, lectures, and theory, Totems and Other Essays traces a loosely autobiographical arc.Earlier pieces echo Scalbert's formative years in London during a period of architectural ferment marked by the work of James Stirling, Norman Foster, and Richard Rogers, as well as his close association with a generation of contemporaries including Tony Fretton, Adam Caruso and Peter St John, and Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald (6a architects). Later texts expand outward, both geographically and conceptually, as Scalbert brings a speculative and at times personal lens to questions of urbanism, nature, and meaning in contemporary architecture. The book culminates in Lives of a Critic, a postscript that offers candid thoughts on the vocation of architectural criticism in the 21st century. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9783038604624
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