Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics - Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor Graham Cairns is an internationally recognized academicand author. Based at Columbia University! New York! while writing this book! he is now Senior Honorary Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture! London. He is Director of the international research organization AMPS (Architecture! Media! Politics! Society) and Executive Editor of its scholarly journal! Architecture_MPS. The author and editor of eight books on architecture as visual culture and as a socio-political construct! he has delivered keynote talks internationally and has published multiple articles in interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Zusammenfassung Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Murray Fraser. Introduction. Part 1: Interview Articles The First of the Format Part 2: Views from the United States and the United Kingdom 1. Noam Chomsky 2. Robert A. M. Stern 3. Peggy Deamer 4. Peter Nears 5. Stephen Hodder 6. Michael Sorkin 7. Paul Goldberger 8. Clare Devine 9. Daniel Libeskind 10. Steven Weir and Gareth Hepworth 11. Kenneth Frampton Part 3: An International Perspective Jonathan Woetzel Index

Product details

• Authors: Graham Cairns, Graham (Amps (Architecture Cairns, Cairns Graham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2016
• EAN: 9781472456083
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5608-3
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Architecture, Sociology, Society & culture: general, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Philosophy: aesthetics, Regional & area planning, Human Geography, Theory of architecture, City and town planning: architectural aspects