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The Architectural Project (Hardcover)
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The Architectural Project (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Architecture and Culture
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"An Essay Concerning the Project" considers the practice of
architectural design as it has developed during the last two
centuries. In this challenging interpretation of design education
and its effect on design process and products, Argentinean scholar
Alfonso Corona-Martinez emphasizes the distinction between an
architectural project, created in the architect's mind and
materialized as a set of drawings on paper, and the realized
three-dimensional building.
Corona-Martinez demonstrates how representation plays a substantial
role in determining both the notion and the character of
architecture, and he traces this relationship from the Renaissance
into the Modern era, giving detailed considerations of
Functionalism and Typology. His argument clarifies the continuity
in the practice of design method through the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, a continuity that has been obscured by the
emphasis on changing goals instead of design procedures, and
examines the influences of modernity and the legend of the Bauhaus.
Architectural schooling, he suggests, has had a decisive role in
the transmission of these practices. He concludes that the methods
formalized in Beaux Arts teaching are not only still with us but
are in good part responsible for the stylistic instability that
haunts Modern architecture.
Abstract but not abstruse, "An Essay Concerning the Project"
provides clear information for a deeper understanding of the
process of design and its results. More so than any other recent
text, it shows the scope and richness of the field of speculation
in architecture. It presents subtle considerations that must be
mastered if an architect is to properly use typology, the means of
representation, and the elements of composition and in
architecture. Students, teachers, and practitioners alike will
benefit from its warning about the deeper aspects of the endeavor
of architecture.
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