Gnostic Architecture

Moss, Eric Owen

ISBN 10: 1580930190 / ISBN 13: 9781580930192

Edité par The Monacelli Press, 1999

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Synopsis :

The definitive statement of Eric Owen Moss's design theory, Gnostic Architecture seeks to expand the discussion of contemporary architecture beyond debates over style or ideology. It does so, however, not by turning to conventional site analysis or fashionable intellectual trends for support but by emphasizing the architect's personal approach to the act of building. "Gnostic architecture," Moss says, "is not about faith in a movement, a methodology, a process, a technique, or technology. It is a strategy for keeping architecture in a perpetual state of motion." While Moss's gnostic approach keeps the practice of architecture on the move, it nevertheless focuses on fundamental questions that face all architects, questions that, as he says, separate architects from those who just happen to do architecture. Gnosticism allows the architect to ignore the contradictions and confusions encountered along the path that is the practice of architecture, so that he or she may rely on individual, internally derived design methods. The measure of an architect's integrity is thus dependent on his or her own internal compass and not on external factors. The book, with its unique, trapezoidal shape and suggestive visual character, gives uncanny material expression to Moss's gnosticism.

À propos de l'auteur: Eric Owen Moss is based in Los Angeles. After completing degrees at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University, he opened an office in Los Angeles in 1973. Moss has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad, and is a member of the board of directors at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, where he has taught since 1973.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Gnostic Architecture
Éditeur : The Monacelli Press
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good