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This book presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth century architecture using three trajectories-the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities. In so doing it argues for the latent potential in modern architecture's traditions and design principles and their future expression.
List of contents
Continuities
TRAJECTORY I: Conceptual Objects 1. Distancing: De Vore House by Louis I. Kahn 2. Displacements: House II and House IV by Peter Eisenman 3. Overcoming: Diamond Projects by John Hejduk
TRAJECTORY II: Sensation 4. Animate matter: Bryn Mawr College Dormitory by Louis I. Kahn 5. Elastic space: I. M. Pei's approach to form-space generation
TRAJECTORY III: Time 6. Diagonalities: Visual Arts Center by Le Corbusier 7. Group form: Meeting House and Philadelphia College of Art by Louis I. Kahn 8. Freedom: MAXXI by Zaha Hadid Discontinuity
About the author
Michael Jasper is Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra. Former Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, and former Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, he is the author of
Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman.
Summary
This book presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth century architecture using three trajectories–the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities. In so doing it argues for the latent potential in modern architecture’s traditions and design principles and their future expression.
