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Title The education of the architect : historiography, urbanism, and the growth of architectural knowledge : essays presented to Stanford Anderson / edited by Martha Pollak
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 478 pages) : illustrations
Series Open Access e-Books
Contents Frank Lloyd Wright's "The art and craft of the machine" : text and context / Joseph M. Siry -- Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and the Bay Region style / Gail Fenske -- Modern architectural ideology in Cold War America / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Educated evolution : Darwinism, design education, and American influence in Central Europe, 1898-1918 / Ákos Moravánszky -- The Dutch reception of Frank Lloyd Wright : an overview / Maristella Casciato -- Against style : Bruno Taut's pedagogical program in Turkey, 1936-1938 / Sibel Bozdogan -- Meditations on the impossibility of a history of modernity : seeing beyond art's history / Mark Jarzombek -- The history of Louis Hautecoeur : classical architecture and Vichy politics / Hilary Ballon -- Between formalism and deconstruction : Hans Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics and the aesthetics of reception / Danilo Udovicki-Selb -- Forms of understanding : thematic knowledge and the modernist legacy / N. John Habraken -- Learning from "Mendicant America" : H.P. Berlage's enounter with the American city / Nancy Stieber -- Surveillance and spectacle in fascist Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo -- The formation of the Neo-Mamluk style in modern Egypt / Nasser Rabbat -- Between tradition and innovation : Place Louis XV in Paris / Carlo Olmo -- Architecture, ethics, and the person / Royston Landau -- The conditions of criticism / Micha Bandini -- History's history / Lawrence B. Anderson -- Learning from Ekalavya / Charles Correa -- Publications by Stanford Anderson : selected bibliography
Summary "The authors of these eighteen essays have all been deeply influenced by the philosophy of architecture developed by Stanford Anderson, through his writings and through the teaching program of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, which he and Henry Millon founded at MIT over twenty years ago. This "school" of architectural thought views architecture as a world of inquiry and as a discipline anchored in the epistemological bases of contemporary philosophy, especially the philosophy of science. Clear thematic concerns bind the essays together. The essays of the first section, "American Debates," share a deep preoccupation with modernism, its national ideologies, and regional responses in the American context. The contributors to the second section, "European Responses," examine European responses to these American debates. In the third section, "Historiographic Constructs," contributors comment on the writing, interpretation, and uses of architectural history. Contributors to the fourth section, "Urbanisms," grapple with the knotty interdependence of politics and the built environment. In the last section, "Teaching Architecture," four distinguished educators consider the most difficult aspect of the discipline, its pedagogical mandate. Whether historians or architects (and several have trained in both areas), the essayists all share the belief that contemporary concerns about architecture affect the way history is constructed. Because they view architecture as a body of knowledge evolving over time, they have resisted the wholesale espousal or rejection of modernism that has often polarized the examination and practice of architecture in the second half of this century"--Publisher's description
Analysis ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-455) and index
Subject Anderson, Stanford -- Influence
SUBJECT Anderson, Stanford fast
Anderson, Stanford 1934-2016 gnd
Anderson, Stanford. swd
Subject Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Architecture -- Historiography.
City planning -- History -- 20th century
Architecture -- Philosophy
Symbolism in architecture.
Modern movement (Architecture) -- United States
Modern movement (Architecture) -- Europe
City planning -- Political aspects -- 20th century
Architecture -- Study and teaching (Higher)
architectural theory.
Architecture -- Historiography
Architecture, Modern
Architecture -- Philosophy
Architecture -- Study and teaching (Higher)
City planning
City planning -- Political aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Modern movement (Architecture)
Symbolism in architecture
Architektur
Architekturgeschichtsschreibung
Ausbildung
Bibliografie
Künstler
Philosophie
Städtebau
Aufsatzsammlung
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architectuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Architecture -- Historiographie.
Europe
United States
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Festschriften
History
Essays.
Festschriften.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Stanford, honouree
Pollak, Martha D., editor.
ISBN 0262367998
9780262367998