Architecture Depends
$50.14
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2013
Summary
Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends-on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess- the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, archit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518789 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518783 |
| Author: | Jeremy Till |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Boldly and elegantly, Architecture Depends asserts that architecture is absolutely dependent upon the ‘contingent’, difficult and perverse factors that architects have long tried to ignore in an effort to be pure, self-important and professional…What Till’s book achieves is to set out with great clarity the territory in which the debate around future action must take place.
—Robert Mull , Architects’ JournalArchitecture Depends is an attempt to save the profession from itself and a manifesto for an architecture that acknowledges its relationship with the world and its duty to others…This is a brave, enjoyable, affirming and important book and I actually felt sad to have finished it.
—Flora Samuel, Times Higher Education (Book of the Week)The book performs a wonderful contextualizing function, making architectural intervention, from idea to event, depend on the wide range of human habits and spheres of influence that we normally sum up as ‘the world’.
—Lucas Freeman, ScapegoatThought-provoking and important…Architecture Depends raises the question of the relationship of architecture and life to a new level.
—Anni Vartola, Arkkitehti (Finland)Till’s book is about the world he knows and how one conveys ideas behind architecture. It is a superbly written, frequently fascinating set of arguments that will support architects who wish to use the messy stuff of life for their own advantage.
—Tim Abrahams , BlueprintAbout The Author
Jeremy Till
Jeremy Till is Head of Central St Martins/Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of the Arts London, and a partner at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. Their projects include the pioneering 9 Stock Orchard Street (The Strawbale House and Quilted Office), winner of multiple awards. He represented Britain at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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