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Forty Ways to Think About Architecture
Architectural History and Theory Today
Iain Borden (Author), Murray Fraser (Author), Barbara Penner (Author)
9781118822616, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2014
288 pages
20.1 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.562 kg
How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today. The inspiration for this project is the work of Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), who has been internationally renowned as the UK’s leading academic in the discipline for 40 years. Forty’s many publications, notably Objects of Desire (1986), Words and Buildings (2000) and Concrete and Culture (2012), have been crucial to opening up new approaches to architectural history and theory and have helped to establish entirely new areas of study. His teaching at The Bartlett has enthused a new generation about the exciting possibilities of architectural history and theory as a field. This collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. Concise and engaging entries reflect on architecture from a range of perspectives. Contributors include eminent historians and theorists from elsewhere – such as Jean-Louis Cohen, Briony Fer, Hilde Heynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny Sparke and Anthony Vidler – as well as Forty’s colleagues from the Bartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint. Forty Ways to Think about Architecture also features contributions from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics and architectural writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking and Thomas Weaver. Many of the contributors are former students of Adrian Forty. Through these diverse essays, readers are encouraged to think about how architectural history and theory relates to their own research and design practices, thus using the work of Adrian Forty as a catalyst for fresh and innovative thinking about architecture as a subject.
Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 8 Adrian Forty, Future Imperfect: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at UCL in December 2000 17 1 How To Write About Buildings? 33 2 Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page 36 3 Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism 43 4 Homely Affinities 48 5 On Regeneration 54 6 Fresh Reactions to St Paul’s Cathedral 60 7 Photographs and Buildings (mainly) 65 8 Stirling’s Voice: A Detailed Suggestion 72 9 Carte Blanche? 77 10 Buildings: A Reader’s Guide 83 11 The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory 89 12 The Most Modern Material Of Them All … 95 13 ‘Things that People Cannot Anticipate’: Skateboarding at the Southbank Centre 100 14 ‘Truth, Love, Life’: Building with Language in Prague Castle under Masaryk 106 15 Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics 112 16 During Breakfast 119 17 [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire 127 18 Words and Buildings 134 19 Slow Hard Look 140 20 Topography, Biography and Architecture 144 21 Of Character and Concrete: The Historian’s Material 150 22 Spectres of Marx in City X 155 23 History by Design 163 24 Angel Place: A Way in to Dickens’s London 168 25 On ‘Sachlichkeit’: Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter 174 26 Double Vision 180 27 Modernism 185 28 Yes, And We Have No Dentists 193 29 Reyner Banham’s Hat 197 30 Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies 204 31 Objects 210 32 Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912–1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett 214 33 Things Ungrand 220 34 ‘Minor’ Spaces in Officers’ Bungalows of Colonial Bengal 224 35 Memoirs of Adrian 235 36 All That Glitters 239 37 A Response to Words and Buildings 243 38 Material Culture: ‘Manchester of the East’, Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans 249 39 Mr Mumford’s Neighbourhood 254 40 Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism 259 Author Biographies 266 Index 275 Photo credits 280
Andrew Saint
Anne Hultzsch
Anthony Vidler
Barbara Penner
Ben Campkin
Brian Stater
Briony Fer
David Dunster
Davide Deriu
Eleanor Young
Griselda Pollock
Hilde Heynen
Iain Borden
Irena antovská Murray
Jan Birksted
Jane Rendell
Jean-Louis Cohen
Jeremy Melvin
Jeremy Till
Joe Kerr
John Macarthur
Jonathan Charley
Jonathan Hill
Kester Rattenbury
Laurent Stalder
Mark Swenarton
Mary Mcleod
Michael Edwards
Murray Fraser
Peg Rawes
Penny Sparke
Sir Peter Hall
Sarah Wigglesworth
Tania Sengupta
Thomas Weaver
Tom Dyckhoff
Tony Fretton
Victoria Perry
William Menking
Yat Ming Loo
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
