Judgment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989961206 ISBN 13: 9780989961202

Publisher: Rice School of Architecture, 2014

Synopsis

This book illuminates a set of exchanges among architects, critics and art historians including Sarah Whiting, Hal Foster, Neil Denari, Ben van Berkel, Markus Miessen, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, R. E. Somol, and Brett Steele.
First and foremost, Judgment is a conversation about architecture's partisanships, the indispensable and biased engagements that catalyze architecture's progress.
Judgment is the result of a series of conversations that took place, and continue to take place, at the Rice School of Architecture.

About this title

About the Author:

Ben van Berkel is an architect and co-founder of UN Studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Van Berkel is also Professor of Conceptual Design at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Scott Colman is a theorist, critic, and historian of architecture. Colman is a Senior Lecturer at the Rice School of Architecture in Houston, Texas. Neil Denari is an architect and founder of NMDA, an architectural practice. Denari is also a Professor at the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles, California. Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art and Archeology at Princeton University. Foster co-edits October and is a regular contributor to Artforum and the London Review of Books. Jeffrey Kipnis is a critic and theorist of architecture. Kipnis is a Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, and holds Visiting Professorships at Princeton University and the Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Sylvia Lavin is a critic and theorist of architecture. Lavin is a Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles, California. Markus Miessen is an architect, writer, and Professor of Critical and Spatial Practice at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. R. E. Somol is a critic and theorist of architecture. Somol is the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Brett Steele is an architect and is the Director of the AA in London. Sarah Whiting is a theorist and critic of architecture. She is Dean and William Ward Watkin Professor at the Rice School of Architecture. Whiting is also a co-founder of WW, an architectural practice in Houston, Texas. Ron Witte is an architect and Associate Professor at the Rice School of Architecture. Witte is a co-founder of WW, an architectural practice in Houston, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rice School of Architecture
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0989961206
• ISBN 13: 9780989961202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Colman Scott, Witte Ron