Derrida for Architects

Derrida for Architects
Author: Richard Coyne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136723463

Jacques Derrida’s thinking is radical, provocative, controversial, and even difficult. This book looks afresh at Derrida’s thinking in relation to architecture. It simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. As well as a review of Derrida’s interaction with architecture, it is also a careful consideration of the implications of his thinking, particularly on the way architecture is practiced.

The Architecture of Deconstruction

The Architecture of Deconstruction
Author: Mark Wigley
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262731140

By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.

The Last Fortress of Metaphysics

The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
Author: Francesco Vitale
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438469373

Between 1984 and 1994 Jacques Derrida wrote and spoke a great deal about architecture both in his academic work and in connection with a number of particular building projects around the world. He engaged significantly with the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, and Daniel Libeskind. Derrida conceived of architecture as an example of the kind of multidimensional writing that he had theorized in Of Grammatology, identifying a rich common ground between architecture and philosophy in relation to ideas about political community and the concept of dwelling. In this book, Francesco Vitale analyzes Derrida's writings and demonstrates how Derrida's work on this topic provides a richer understanding of his approach to deconstruction, highlighting the connections and differences between philosophical deconstruction and architectural deconstructivism.

Merleau-Ponty for Architects

Merleau-Ponty for Architects
Author: Jonathan Hale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317291999

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge, Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow and Alberto Pérez-Gómez in North America and Juhani Pallasmaa in Finland. Merleau-Ponty suggested that the value of people’s experience of the world gained through their immediate bodily engagement with it remains greater than the value of understanding gleaned through abstract mathematical, scientific or technological systems. This book summarizes what Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy has to offer specifically for architects. It locates architectural thinking in the context of his work, placing it in relation to themes such as space, movement, materiality and creativity, introduces key texts, helps decode difficult terms and provides quick reference for further reading.

Foucault for Architects

Foucault for Architects
Author: Gordana Fontana-Giusti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135010080

From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts and aesthetics led to a renewed focus on the avant-garde. Prepared by an architect, this book offers an excellent entry point into the remarkable work of Michel Foucault, and provides a focused introduction suitable for architects, urban designers, and students of architecture. Foucault’s crucial juxtaposition of space, knowledge and power has unlocked novel spatial possibilities for thinking about design in architecture and urbanism. While the philosopher's ultimate attention on the issues of body and sexuality has defined our understanding of the possibilities and limits of human condition and its relation to architecture. The book concentrates on a number of historical and theoretical issues often addressed by Foucault that have been grouped under the themes of archaeology, enclosure, bodies, spatiality and aesthetics in order to examine and demonstrate their relevancy for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice.

Benjamin for Architects

Benjamin for Architects
Author: Brian Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136846360

A concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, considering figures of modern art and architecture in detail, and locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.

Daniel Libeskind, Radix-Matrix

Daniel Libeskind, Radix-Matrix
Author: Daniel Libeskind
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Daniel Libeskind represents a unique attempt to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of Libeskind's architecture and philosophy. Libeskind serves as the mediator of his own work, exploring various projects through an illuminating juxtaposition of textual commentary with illustrations of competition models, concept drawings, and site photos of realized works. Essays by Jacques Derrida and Mark C. Taylor, among others, provide a critical analysis of Libeskind's architecture, identifying his place within the context of contemporary architecture and theory. The book concludes with a collection of Libeskind's most important essays, many of which are published here in English for the first time.

Bhabha for Architects

Bhabha for Architects
Author: Felipe Hernandez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135146632

This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on the work of critic Homi K. Bhabha, who's work has been used as a means to analyse architectural practices in previously colonised contexts. This title reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study of contemporary architectures in general, not only in colonial and postcolonial contexts.