In "Architecture of Thought," Andrzej Piotrowski maps and
conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how
physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally
rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced
processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. According to
Piotrowski, material structures enable people to think in new
ways--distill emerging or alter existing worldviews--before words
can stabilize them as conventional narratives.
Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry,
Piotrowski traces ancient to modern architectural histories
and--through critical readings of select buildings--examines the
role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated
Western identity. Unlike studies that organize around the
traditional scheme of periodization in history, "Architecture of
Thought" uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate a wide
spectrum of cultural productions in different times and places.
Operating from the assertion that buildings are the most permanent
record of unself-conscious beliefs and attitudes, it discusses
Byzantium and the West after iconoclasm, the conquest and
colonization of Mesoamerica, the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe, the rise of the culture of
consumerism in Victorian England, and High Modernism as its
consequence. By moving beyond the assumption that historical
structures reflect transcendental values and deterministic laws of
physics or economy or have been shaped by self-conscious
individuals, Piotrowski challenges the traditional knowledge of
what architecture is and can be.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2011 |
First published: |
May 2011 |
Authors: |
Andrzej Piotrowski
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
408 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-7305-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
0-8166-7305-5 |
Barcode: |
9780816673056 |
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