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Author : Miles Glendinning
Release : 2010-10-15
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Architecture's Evil Empire? by : Miles Glendinning
Download or read book Architecture's Evil Empire? written by Miles Glendinning. This book was released on 2010-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chicago to Toronto to Shanghai, cities around the world have sprouted “iconic” buildings by celebrity architects like Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind that compete for attention both on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years, criticism of these extreme “gestural” structures, known for their often-exaggerated forms, has been growing. Miles Glendinning’s impassioned polemic, Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at how today’s trademark architectural individualism stretches beyond the well-known works and ultimately extends to the entire built environment. Glendinning examines how the global empire of the current modernism emerged—particularly in relation to the excesses of global capitalism—and explains its key organizational and architectural features, placing its most influential theorists and designers in a broader context of history and artistic movements. Arguing against the excesses of iconic architecture, Glendinning advocates a vision of modern renewal that seeks to remedy the shattered and alienated look he sees in contemporary architecture. Mingling scholarship with wry humor and a genuine concern for the state of architecture, Architecture’s Evil Empire will raise many heated debates and appeal to a wide range of readers, from architects to historians, interested in the built environment.
Author : Miles Glendinning
Release : 2010
Genre : Architecture, Modern
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Book Synopsis Architecturés Evil Empire? by : Miles Glendinning
Download or read book Architecturés Evil Empire? written by Miles Glendinning. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yasser Megahed
Release : 2020-07-30
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession by : Yasser Megahed
Download or read book Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession written by Yasser Megahed. This book was released on 2020-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. They depict and dramatise the value conflicts between the different cultures of practising architecture and between the architectural profession and other members of the building industry as political conflicts around the future of Practiceopolis. The book uses the metaphorical world of Practiceopolis to provoke big questions about everyday routines in the profession that practitioners may take for granted and to examine different ideologies at work among architects and other members of the construction industry. The novel ends in the tradition of dystopian worlds common in a certain strand of graphic novels. By vividly illustrating and narrating the critical issues he interrogates, the author has created a world which any architect, student or professional, will both instantly recognise and simultaneously reject, provoking the reader to challenge themselves and the profession at large.
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Release : 2019-10-07
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Perspectives on Evil written by . This book was released on 2019-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study takes a real-life look at evil deeds and evil nature, from the Global Financial Crisis to the Rwanda Genocide and beyond. The authors share their personal and poignant views on evil.
