Judging architectural value
By: William S. Saunders, editor ; introduction by Michael Benedikt
Contributors: Saunders, William S
Series: Harvard design magazine readers -- 4
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780816650101; 9780816650118
Subjects: Architectural criticism; Architectural design; Architecture -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Learning from St. Louis : the Arch, the Canon, and Bourdieu / Hélène Lipstadt; title: What goes unnoticed : on the canonical quality of the PSFS Building / David Leatherbarrow; title: Canon and anti-canon : on the fall and rise of the A + A / Timothy M. Rohan; title: Canons in cross fire : on the importance of critical modernism / Charles Jencks; title: In the shadow of a giant : on the consequences of canonization / Daniel Willis; title: Eyesore or art? On Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg project / John Beardsley; title: Toward an architecture of humility : on the value of experience / Juhani Pallasmaa; title: Why are some buildings more interesting than others? / Kurt W. Forster; title: Questions of value : an interview with Kenneth Frampton / William S. Saunders and Nancy Levinson; title: Most architecture should be modest : on architecture and aesthetic judgment / Roger Scruton; title: From taste to judgment : multiple criteria in the evaluation of architecture / William S. Saunders; title: Once again by the Pacific : returning to sea ranch / Tim Culvahouse and Lisa Findley; title: The absence of presence : the Knickerbocker residence and the fate of nonelitist architecture / Diane Ghirardo