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Collected essays in architectural criticism
Title:
Collected essays in architectural criticism
Author:
Colquhoun, Alan, 1921- author.
ISBN:
9781906155209
Physical Description:
351 pages : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm.
General Note:
Erratum slip inserted.
Contents:
1962-1980 -- The Modern Movement in Architecture -- Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology -- Formal and Functional Interactions: a Study of Two Late Buildings by Le Corbusier -- Displacement of Concepts in Le Corbusier -- Typology and Design Method -- Rules, Realism and History -- Alvar Aalto: Type versus Function -- The Superblock -- Centraal Beheer -- Plateau Beaubourg -- Frames to Framework -- Historicism and the Limits of Semiology -- Sign and Substance: Reflections on Complexity, Las Vegas and Oberlin -- EH Gombrich and the Hegelian Tradition -- EH Gombrich: "Symptoms and Syndromes" In Search of Cultural History -- The Beaux-Arts Plan: Viollet-le-Duc's Transformation of the Parisian Hotel Purticulier -- Form and Figure -- From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again --

1980-1989 -- Three Kinds of Historicism -- Rationalism: a Philosophical Concept in Architecture -- Composition versus the Project -- Vernacular Classicism -- A Way of Looking at the Present Situation -- The Significance of Le Corbusier -- Architecture and Engineering: Le Corbusier and the Paradox of Reason -- The Strategies of the Grand Travaux -- Classicism and Ideology -- Regionalism and Technology -- "Newness" and "Age-Value" in Alois Riegl -- Postmodern Critical Attitudes -- Postmodernism and Structuralism: a Retrospective Glance -- 1989-2004 -- Reyner Banham: A Reading for the 1980s -- The Le Corbusier Centenary -- The Nineteenth Century Terminus Station as Cultural Artefact -- Regionalism 1 -- Regionalism 2 -- Axonometry, Ancient and the Modern -- Criticism and Self-criticism in German Modernism -- Architectural Manifestos of the 1960s in America -- Lost Illusions -- Esprit de Corps -- Notes on Public Policy and City Planning in Europe since 1840 -- Changing Museum.
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