How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically?
Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to
some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and
theory are being approached today. The inspiration for this project
is the work of Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at
the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
(UCL), who has been internationally renowned as the UK s leading
academic in the discipline for 40 years. Forty s many publications,
notably Objects of Desire (1986), Words and Buildings (2000) and
Concrete and Culture (2012), have been crucial to opening up new
approaches to architectural history and theory and have helped to
establish entirely new areas of study. His teaching at The Bartlett
has enthused a new generation about the exciting possibilities of
architectural history and theory as a field. This collection takes
in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory
and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces.
As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental
design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built
environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and
ecologies. Concise and engaging entries reflect on architecture
from a range of perspectives. Contributors include eminent
historians and theorists from elsewhere such as Jean-Louis Cohen,
Briony Fer, Hilde Heynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny
Sparke and Anthony Vidler as well as Forty s colleagues from the
Bartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, Murray
Fraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint.
Forty Ways to Think about Architecture also features contributions
from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton, Jeremy Till
and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics and architectural
writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking and Thomas Weaver.
Many of the contributors are former students of Adrian Forty.
Through these diverse essays, readers are encouraged to think about
how architectural history and theory relates to their own research
and design practices, thus using the work of Adrian Forty as a
catalyst for fresh and innovative thinking about architecture as a
subject.
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