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Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History
The Architect as Physical Historian
Series: Design Studio
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This volume will appeal to professionals and students in architecture and design, as well as readers interested in arts and cultural history. It suits those seeking a deeper understanding of how history informs architectural creativity and innovation.
Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil.
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Each architectural design is a new history.
To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future.
We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil.
The aim of this volume is to understand each design as a visible and physical history. Historical understanding is investigated as a stimulus to the creative process, highlighting how architects learn from each other and other disciplines. This encourages us to consider the stories about history that architects fabricate.
An eminent set of international contributors reflect on the relevance of historical insight for contemporary design, drawing on the rich visual output of innovative studios worldwide in practice and education.
Wide ranging and thought-provoking articles encompass fact, fiction, memory, time, etymology, civilisation, racial segregation and more.
Features: Elizabeth Dow, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Terunobu Fujimori, Perry Kulper, Lesley Lokko, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Niall McLaughlin, Aisling O’Carroll, Arinjoy Sen, Amin Taha and Sumayya Vally.
Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History invites readers to engage with architectural history through a creative and interdisciplinary lens.
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ISBN: 9781859469729
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: RIBA Publishing
Contributors:
- Edited by Jonathan Hill
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 210.0mm
Height: 250.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme and tutors MArch Unit 12. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006), Weather Architecture (2012), A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (2016), and The Architecture of Ruins (2019); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture – the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).
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