The Domestic and the Foreign in ArchitectureRuth Baumeister, Sang Lee 010 Publishers, 2007 - 375 páginas For centuries, across nations, dialogue between the domestic and the foreign has affected and transformed architecture. Today these dialogues have become highly intensified. The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture examines how these exchanges manifest themselves in contemporary architecture, in terms of its aesthetic potential and its practice, which, in turn, are impacted by broad economic, cultural and political issues. This book traces how diverse cultural encounters inevitably modify conventional categories, standards and codes of architecture, such as domestic identity, its political and economic representations and the negotiations with what is deemed foreign. Theoretical reflections by distinguished scholars are accompanied by interviews with some of the most influential architects practicing today, as well as stunning visual presentations by professional photographers. |
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aesthetic Arata Isozaki archi architects architectural forms architecture and urbanism Bauhaus Beck become belhuis building built capital China Chinese Chinese architecture colonial competition complex concept condition consider construction contemporary context cosmopolitan created critical regionalism cultural identity cultural supermarket define Denise Scott Brown discourse discussion domestic economic elements environment Ettore Sottsass example experience foreign George Ritzer global cultural Global Modernity Hannes Meyer heritage idea ideological important individual infrastructure interesting issue Italian Italy Japan Japanese kind Le Corbusier living Lujiazui material means modern architecture modernist Museum Palestinian particular perspective planning political possible postmodern present problem production Ramallah relationship Rem Koolhaas representation Robert Venturi sense Shanghai situation social society spatial specific structure style symbolic Taiwan tecture territory tion tradition transformation transnational University Western York
Pasajes populares
Página 95 - define" globalization as an untotalizable totality which intensifies binary relations between its parts — mostly nations, but also regions and groups, which, however, continue to articulate themselves on the model of "national identities" (rather than in terms of social classes, for example).
Página 94 - Robertson, surely one of the most ambitious theorists of the matter, has formulated the dynamic of globalization as "the twofold process of the particularization of the universal and the universalization of the particular.
Página 205 - Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.
Página 156 - ... examine one by one every function of a building and use it as a basis for form. Just as we acquainted ourselves with materials and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. Therefore we must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the...
Página 367 - I have brought you this message; what we call organic architecture is no mere aesthetic nor cult nor fashion but an actual movement based upon a profound idea of a new integrity of human life wherein art, religion and science are one : Form and Function seen as One, of such is Democracy.
Página 122 - This house . . . will be rather like an architectural promenade. One enters, and the architectural vista presents itself immediately to view; one follows a set route, and a great variety of perspectives present themselves: there is a play of light, highlighting the walls or casting shadows.
Página 46 - salvation" is any longer to be found within it: neither wandering restlessly in labyrinths of images so multivalent they end in muteness, nor enclosed in the stubborn silence of geometry content with its own perfection. For this reason it is useless to propose purely architectural alternatives. The search for an alternative within the structures that condition the very character of architectural design is indeed an obvious contradiction of terms. Reflection on architecture, inasmuch as it is a criticism...
Página 114 - Now what comes to the fore is increasing identity (rather than difference): the rapid assimilation of hitherto autonomous national markets and productive zones into a single sphere, the disappearance of national subsistence...
Página 95 - ... what we now need to add to the other qualifications implicit in the formulation — binary or point-to-point relations already being rather different from some plural constellation of localities and particulars — is that such relations are first and foremost ones of tension or antagonism, when not outright exclusion: in them each term struggles to define itself against the binary other.
Página 95 - Europe and the People without History^ to see that as far back as the neolithic trade routes have been global in their scope, with Polynesian artifacts deposited in Africa and Asian potsherds as far afield as the New World. Then I suppose one should add two more: one that affirms the relationship between globalization and that world market which is the ultimate horizon of capitalism, only to add that the current world networks are only different in degree and not in kind; while a fourth affirmation...