Terms of Appropriation

Name: Terms of Appropriation
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138940048
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Terms of Appropriation explores the ways architectural materials are transformed, revised, and appropriated, offering a new vocabulary to understand this dynamic aspect of architectural discourse. Contributions from emerging scholars examine how architects engage with the work of their predecessors across diverse subjects.
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This book is ideal for students, scholars, and professionals interested in architectural history, criticism, and the evolving discourse on appropriation in architecture.

This collection of critical essays focuses on how material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized or in any other way appropriated in order to address pressing and timely questions regarding architectural influence.

Description

This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarised, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse.

Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.

Explore the dynamics of influence and innovation through the intriguing analysis found in Terms of Appropriation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138940048

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 December 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white; 56 Line drawings, black and white; 88 Halftones, black and white; 144 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence
Edited by Ana Miljački

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 634g

Pages: 282

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Amanda Reeser Lawrence received her PhD in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University. She is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Lawrence is founding coeditor of the award-winning journal, PRAXIS. She is the author of James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press, 2013).

Ana Miljački is Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches history, theory, and design. She holds a PhD in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University. Her work focuses on the relationship between politics and the products and circumstances of architectural labor. She is the author of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938–1968 (Routledge, 2017).