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Title: Architecture and Disjunction by Bernard Tschumi ISBN: 0-262-70060-3 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Pedestrian at best.
Comment: Tschumi states more-or-less obvious truths about the failure of modern architecture to create meaningful places. The arguments are clear, if simply stated. - My big regret is that the writer never heeds his own message. Tschumi himself is one of the worst practitioners of the very ideologies he criticizes. [Anyone who has looked at the Columbia building by Tschumi will know how poor, cold, puerile, vacuous and dumb (that's right DUMB) a building it is.] Tschumi has fallen into the trap so common in architecture these days, of believing that writing ("theorizing") is more important than observing and building for a true reality. Pragmatics and real life issues are not his bag. - In the end, Tschumi is just another architectural hypocrite. He sort of knows the real stuff, but is too much of a wanker (ask your British friends if you don't know what a wanker is), to care about real architectural problems enough to solve them. - A few diagrams here, a few poorly assembled details there ... who cares if it falls apart three days after he photographs it. - It's just such a pity this flaky poof is allowed to teach. - If you read it, (and I don;t recommend you waste your time doing so), just ask yourself if the doctor seems to use his own medicine.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most relevant study on Theory of Architecture in decades
Comment: In an amazing collection of essays, Tschumi criticizes both modernism objectivity and post-modern nostalgia. His most important proposition -- that there is no cause and effect relationship between function and space -- is a kick in the teeth of functionalist thinkers. Instead of "form and function", he proposes an architecture based on "space, event and movement", in which the conflit and contradictions between the terms of the equation is its most relevant aspect. "Architecture and disjunction" is a Pandora's Box -- some of the questions it proposes are painful and disturbing (like "what is space?", for instance), but have been overlooked long enough. To paraphrase Morpheus in the movie "The Matrix", "you can take the blue pill, and believe whatever you like, or you can 'read the little red book', stay in Wonderland, and I'll show how deep the rabbit hole goes..."
Rating: 4
Summary: priceless collection of essays by Tschumi
Comment: Architecture and Disjunction, will undoubtedly be one of the seminal books of the millenium. This priceless collection of essays hammers out, quite artfully, Tschumi's slank on architecture. Covering roughly 20 years of theory and practice A&D pokes at the ideology of Modernism and Post Modernism. A brilliant read for the antagonist!
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Title: Event-Cities 2 by Bernard Tschumi ISBN: 0262700743 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 22 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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: On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time by Mohsen Mostafavi, David Leatherbarrow ISBN: 026263144X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas ISBN: 1885254008 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Immaterial/Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design, and Materials (Millennium Matters) by Toshiko Mori ISBN: 0807615080 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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