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Synopsis
In this book translated into several languages, Nikos Salingaros takes on and condemns much of fashionable contemporary architecture, and especially the "star architects". Arguing that their buildings provide non-adaptive environments, he is also concerned that they offer a bad example for ordinary architects who design school buildings, shops, banks, and churches.
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About the Author
Nikos A. Salingaros is an internationally known urbanist and architectural theorist who has studied the scientific bases underlying architecture for thirty years. Utne Reader ranked him as "One of 50 visionaries who are changing your world", and Planetizen as 11th among "The top 100 urban thinkers of all time". He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
From the Back Cover
"In [this] series of learned and moving critical essays, Salingaros and various close associates argue that we understand life in architecture as the background to human community -- the preparation for our dwelling place... One day, perhaps, Salingaros will be required reading for architects. If that happens it could just be that a new orthodoxy will emerge, in which humility, order, and public spirit -- the virtues which have been chased from the discipline by the starchitects -- will be the norm." -- Roger Scruton.
"What are the ideas and aims of the current architectural elite? And what might explain why these flawed ideas have such a powerful hold on so many people? This is a stunning and deep book, as interesting for its analyses of psychology and politics as it is for its discussion of architecture." -- Ray Sawhill.
"This book should be required reading in every institution concerned with the teaching of architecture, planning, and all other aspects of the built environment. It should also be read by every person claiming to be an architect." -- James Stevens Curl.
"I have just finished reading this long-awaited book. It's worth reading, even if you do not need convincing that Decon is a fraud. The revelation is the depth and extent of the fraud." -- Andrés Duany.
"There are some serious thinkers today, such as Christopher Alexander and Nikos A. Salingaros, who believe we are due for -- or at least need to have -- a major paradigm shift in architecture, to save it. Unfortunately, architects on the whole are not very literate, so don't read theoretical books and critical articles by such thinkers. Mostly they look at pictures." -- Paul H. Malo.
"Nothing in recent years beats the latest from Nikos Salingaros, Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction ... a remarkable book. Nikos writes architecture criticism of the highest order. His genius lies in his ability to build from the specific to the general, which is the opposite of the tendency of academic theorists of architecture. His commentary on Libeskind, on Tschumi, on Derrida, on Charles Jencks is definitive." -- Francis Morrone.
"Nikos Salingaros' books Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction, A Theory of Architecture, and Principles of Urban Structure are three fundamental texts, among the most significant of the past few years." -- Vilma Torselli.
From the Inside Flap
The architectural debate is starting to take place outside architecture altogether, in an open forum where these fundamental questions can be freely discussed. In the twentieth century, architecture assumed a wholly unjustified role of authority (characterized by some as a substitute religion, complete with proselytizing and grandiose self-delusions), yet this key aspect is hardly discussed within architecture itself. Many people projected and continue to project their aspirations onto architecture, which thus acquired lofty ideals. Those excited by new and strange shapes seek a thrill in man-made forms. Nevertheless, this sort of visceral pleasure gets mixed up with defunct religious yearnings, and subsequently assumes aspects of a religious cult open only to the initiated. At the same time, its adherents celebrate a geometry that denies the generative experience of life in the world. (From the Preface).
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- PublisherSustasis Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0989346927
- ISBN 13 9780989346924
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number4
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