Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture

ISBN 10: 0415385393 / ISBN 13: 9780415385398

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006

Beschreibung

pp. 304.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26331268

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Group
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0415385393
• ISBN-13: 9780415385398
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

This innovative, illustrated edited edition brings together a collection of authors to chart the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive.

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Jo Odgers is an architect and lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. She previously worked in architectural practice for 15 years. She is currently working on the architecture and writings of John Wood of Bath in relation to the tradition of Occult Philosophy. She is Associate Editor of arq (Cambridge University Press). Her next project (with Flora Samuel) is a book entitled Facades.

Flora Samuel is an architect and senior lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Co-author, with Sarah Menin, of Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier and author of Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist she is currently writing Le Corbusier in Detail as a Leverhulme Fellow. She has a particular interest in the narratives implicit within the construction of buildings and was one of the original initiators of the Primitive conference from which this book has evolved.

Adam Sharr is a lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture and principal of Adam Sharr Architects, based in Cardiff. His book Heidegger’s Hut will be published by The MIT Press in 2006. He is Associate Editor of arq (Cambridge University Press), editor of made and Joint Secretary of AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association).