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Title: Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age by Manuel Gausa, Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Willy Müller, Federico Soriano ISBN: 8-4959512-2-3 Publisher: Actar Editorial Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Half inspiring, half infuriating
Comment: This book has an interesting thrust behind it; to understand current ideas of urbanism and architecture theory, don't produce a dictionary with a timeless quality. Instead, construct an index committed to the moment, that is destined to begin its obsolescence the second it's printed. It's best quality is its cluttered, jumbled design which floods you with imagery and conceptual points of departure.
Sadly, it seems that 2/3rds of architecture education is deliberate obfuscation; those people muddying their waters so as to appear deep. Like all theory, this operates from a "We're so clever, that what we're saying can't be summarized." viewpoint that complicates simple ideas. If you're not into theoretical hair-splitting you're in for a rough time. For complete annoyance you could look up these idiotic entries: 'benidorm' or 'mmm.' The books worst quality is it's fetishing of neologism.
One-line entries for epic concepts that don't even offer fundamentals are so broad as to be useless. Look up 'colours!' Say... that was useless. No this isn't the book I'd turn to for a deep understanding of color but why include an entry at all?
At it's worst this is a coy, academic in-joke that worships jargon, in an attempt to influence the lexicon.('delynneate...' get it? greg lynn...) At it's best it's an exhilarating look at ideas that may have a shelf-life of decades or a few months, relievedly free of blob worshipping.
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Title: INDEX Architecture : A Columbia Architecture Book by Bernard Tschumi, Matthew Berman ISBN: 0262700956 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: S,M,L,Xl by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann ISBN: 1885254865 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques by Peter Eisenman, Giuseppe Terragni, Manfredo Tafuri ISBN: 1885254962 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: ArchiLab's Earth Buildings: Radical Experiments in the Architecture of the Land by Marie-Ange Brayer, Beatrice Simonot ISBN: 0500284121 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects by Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Friedrich Ludewig, Kensuke Kishikawa, Foa ISBN: 8495951479 Publisher: Actar Editorial Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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