Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formattin... more Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document.
STRUCTURING SURFACES: THE LEGACY OF THE WHITES PEGGY DEAMER Taking on thelegacy of "The ... more STRUCTURING SURFACES: THE LEGACY OF THE WHITES PEGGY DEAMER Taking on thelegacy of "The Whites" is a daunting task. To speak of them as a whole gives credence to the idea that they were a group, when in fact the association of Peter Eisenman, ...
Places-a Forum of Environmental Design, Nov 3, 2022
This is the second installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practit... more This is the second installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice. How is the field responding to the interlocking wicked problem that define our time — climate crisis, structural racism, unaffordable housing, rapid technological shifts? To the increasingly passionate campaigns to decolonize the canon, to make schools and offices more equitable, ethical, and diverse? What are the issues of greatest urgency? What specific actions and practical interventions are needed now? Co authors: BRANDI T. SUMMERS, JEREMY TILL, PEGGY DEAMER, JEFFREY HOU, DANIEL A. BARBER, DAHLIA NDUOM, JAMES GRAHAM, NORA WENDL, CASSIM SHEPARD, ANDREA ROBERTS, SARA JENSEN CARR, DAVID THEODORE
Perspecta, the oldest and most respected student-edited architectural journal in the United State... more Perspecta, the oldest and most respected student-edited architectural journal in the United States, marks its fiftieth anniversary with this selection of influential and provocative pieces published in its pages from the 1950s through the 1990s. The essays and portfolios in Re-Reading Perspecta trace the development of architectural culture and discourse over the past fifty years and bear witness to the influential role played by Perspecta in a time of crucial debate about the function and future of architecture.This monumental collection (with over 700 pages and 900 images) presents the most engaging and stimulating essays published in Perspecta, written by such well-known historians, theorists, and architects as Vincent Scully, Colin Rowe, Roland Barthes, Karsten Harries, K. Michael Hays, Allan Greenberg, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, John Hejduk, Francesco Dal Co, Bernard Tschumi, and Mark Wigley. Re-Reading Perspecta also assembles the best examples of the richly-illustrated portfolios of ...
As theory has moved from “critical” to “post-critical”, globalization as a topic has managed to r... more As theory has moved from “critical” to “post-critical”, globalization as a topic has managed to retain its centrality in both, keeping an edge of criticality – it deals in geo-political issues and a breath of post-ness – it embraces guiltless making in a huge arena. Globalism’s ability to transcend trends in theoretical relevance might seem self-evident: it is an economic, political, and cultural fact that theory (and history) of whatever flavor simply has to confront. But globalization is less fact than ideology and as such obstructs a more nuanced reading of our contemporary condition as well as a more politically-engaged response from the architectural community. Theoretically, Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has taught us that global power transcends the nation state and works according to a logic of transnational corporations feeding on markets both big and small, local and universal. Arjun Appadurai has taught us that globalization enters the imaginary as much as it enters into national politics and economics, transforming into identities that are less corrupted than creatively transformed. Keller Easterling has taught us that globalization offers, through its own confusions and inconsistencies, spaces open to subversive architectural operations. Patrik Schumacher has told us that parametrics is the formal expression of globalization’s smooth, all-over content. Manuel DeLanda demonstrates that, as global citizens, we occupy a network arranged around nodes and points of information convergence. Cultural theory in general tells us globalization, unlike Internationalism and modernism, does away with western hegemony. In all of this, globalization looks kind of interesting, creative. Architectural practice also hears globalization’s siren voice. When there is no work to be had in the US, open an office in China. Feed desirous non-western nations coveting a sign of global arrival with our Western aesthetic. Take advantage of cheap labor, loose zoning, and
Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formattin... more Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document.
STRUCTURING SURFACES: THE LEGACY OF THE WHITES PEGGY DEAMER Taking on thelegacy of "The ... more STRUCTURING SURFACES: THE LEGACY OF THE WHITES PEGGY DEAMER Taking on thelegacy of "The Whites" is a daunting task. To speak of them as a whole gives credence to the idea that they were a group, when in fact the association of Peter Eisenman, ...
Places-a Forum of Environmental Design, Nov 3, 2022
This is the second installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practit... more This is the second installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice. How is the field responding to the interlocking wicked problem that define our time — climate crisis, structural racism, unaffordable housing, rapid technological shifts? To the increasingly passionate campaigns to decolonize the canon, to make schools and offices more equitable, ethical, and diverse? What are the issues of greatest urgency? What specific actions and practical interventions are needed now? Co authors: BRANDI T. SUMMERS, JEREMY TILL, PEGGY DEAMER, JEFFREY HOU, DANIEL A. BARBER, DAHLIA NDUOM, JAMES GRAHAM, NORA WENDL, CASSIM SHEPARD, ANDREA ROBERTS, SARA JENSEN CARR, DAVID THEODORE
Perspecta, the oldest and most respected student-edited architectural journal in the United State... more Perspecta, the oldest and most respected student-edited architectural journal in the United States, marks its fiftieth anniversary with this selection of influential and provocative pieces published in its pages from the 1950s through the 1990s. The essays and portfolios in Re-Reading Perspecta trace the development of architectural culture and discourse over the past fifty years and bear witness to the influential role played by Perspecta in a time of crucial debate about the function and future of architecture.This monumental collection (with over 700 pages and 900 images) presents the most engaging and stimulating essays published in Perspecta, written by such well-known historians, theorists, and architects as Vincent Scully, Colin Rowe, Roland Barthes, Karsten Harries, K. Michael Hays, Allan Greenberg, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, John Hejduk, Francesco Dal Co, Bernard Tschumi, and Mark Wigley. Re-Reading Perspecta also assembles the best examples of the richly-illustrated portfolios of ...
As theory has moved from “critical” to “post-critical”, globalization as a topic has managed to r... more As theory has moved from “critical” to “post-critical”, globalization as a topic has managed to retain its centrality in both, keeping an edge of criticality – it deals in geo-political issues and a breath of post-ness – it embraces guiltless making in a huge arena. Globalism’s ability to transcend trends in theoretical relevance might seem self-evident: it is an economic, political, and cultural fact that theory (and history) of whatever flavor simply has to confront. But globalization is less fact than ideology and as such obstructs a more nuanced reading of our contemporary condition as well as a more politically-engaged response from the architectural community. Theoretically, Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has taught us that global power transcends the nation state and works according to a logic of transnational corporations feeding on markets both big and small, local and universal. Arjun Appadurai has taught us that globalization enters the imaginary as much as it enters into national politics and economics, transforming into identities that are less corrupted than creatively transformed. Keller Easterling has taught us that globalization offers, through its own confusions and inconsistencies, spaces open to subversive architectural operations. Patrik Schumacher has told us that parametrics is the formal expression of globalization’s smooth, all-over content. Manuel DeLanda demonstrates that, as global citizens, we occupy a network arranged around nodes and points of information convergence. Cultural theory in general tells us globalization, unlike Internationalism and modernism, does away with western hegemony. In all of this, globalization looks kind of interesting, creative. Architectural practice also hears globalization’s siren voice. When there is no work to be had in the US, open an office in China. Feed desirous non-western nations coveting a sign of global arrival with our Western aesthetic. Take advantage of cheap labor, loose zoning, and
This international symposium brought together academics from across Schools of Architecture and D... more This international symposium brought together academics from across Schools of Architecture and Design across Australasia who, each in their own institutional context, struggle for fair exposure, opportunity and support in our discipline. It was the second of a series of symposia addressing feminism in architectural academia. The first was held at Parsons The New School for Design in New York in the spring of 2015. The theme of academia is the second of four themes to be addressed by the women in architecture series. The goal was to share strategies for empowering ourselves and our women students. To change the design profession we need to change what and how we teach; we need to present new models of success; and we need to change expectations. The symposium had three sessions. "Representation" dealt with how women are represented in academia; how models of female “success” are (or are not) represented for/to both faculty and students and what can be done to address this. "Gender and Family Politics" discussed the ways in which academia prepares us for healthy, fulfilling careers with work/life balance, cooperation, and gender equity. "Curriculum" offered models of courses that in their subject matter or form of delivery address and rectify the invisibility or implicit disempowerment of women.
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