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Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean La Marche (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-10025202785X
ISBN-139780252027857
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038284219

Product Key Features

Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFamiliar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture
Publication Year2003
SubjectHistory / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArchitecture
AuthorJean La Marche
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight20.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2002-004452
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsADVANCE PRAISE"The topic of The Familiar and the Unfamilar in Twentieth-Century Architecture is an important and provocative one that has not been fully explored in architecture. The book is well written, clear, articulate, and logically organized. . . . Jean La Marche's use of language is fresh and without jargon." -- Dana Cuff, author of Architecture: The Story of Practice
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal724/.6
SynopsisUses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to re-examine some of the most important western architecture of the twentieth century., This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. In approaching the history of twentieth-century Western architecture from the perspective of the architectural subject -- the person architects imagine experiencing their work -- Jean La Marche reveals new insights into the ways humans are imagined in relation to architecture. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines the work -- written and built -- of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and the partnership of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In separate chapters devoted to analyzing the early writings and architecture of each architect or firm, La Marche uncovers assumptions that each makes about the ways they expect their works to be experienced. Matching the texts the architects wrote with the buildings they were designing contemporaneously, he focuses on the language employed in discussing the subject to reveal the author-architects' distinct voices and points of view. La Marche engages these four analyses to expound on some of the more pressing issues of late twentieth-century architectural theory. In addressing how the meaning of the familiar and the unfamiliar are altered when we imagine the influence architecture can have on its subjects, La Marche provides a fresh framework for delineating the politics and ethics of the discipline.
LC Classification NumberNA680.L32 2003
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