{"product_id":"inscriptions-9781934510797","title":"Inscriptions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInscriptions: Architecture Before Speech\u003c\/i\u003e presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centreless field where anything goes and everything is possible, this book argues that much recent work belongs to a collective undertaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath the impression of kaleidoscopic difference produced by the rapid circulation of design images, there is a shared mechanism, an agreement about how architectural objects emerge from the procedures of design. This mechanism, which we call \u003cem\u003einscription\u003c\/em\u003e, manages to both offer fundamentally intelligible form to architecture's audiences, while at the same time advancing the field toward novel outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ensuing work is nothing less than democratically optimistic in its wide appeal and challenging in its cuts against convention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing essays by Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen, Phillip Denny, Edward Eigen, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, and Marrikka Trotter, \u003ci\u003eInscriptions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a broad array of critical perspectives on work that defines architecture's second decade of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430994559212,"sku":"9781934510797","price":121.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781934510797.jpg?v=1774558117","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/inscriptions-9781934510797","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}