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"""Architects, Process and Inspiration: A Collection of Essays"" Founded in the early 1950s, Perspecta is the oldest and most distinguished of the student-edited architectural journals that have flourished in this country for decades. The focus of Perspecta 28 is the architect's persona. The essays concentrate on the role that personal vision plays in the process of perceiving, transforming, and building a world outside of oneself. The idea is that design process is a personal activity that grows out of an individuals education and experiences.""Can you recognize the personal in a mans work?"" asks Louis Kahn in the previously unpublished lecture that opens the issue. The following essays, in which contributors search for clues to Kahns ""personal"", take the form of discrete installations. The final form of each piece grew from its particular written and visual message, revealing the ""personal"" in the authors work. Jean Nouvel's nihilistic lecture, Aldo Rossi's anachronistic cartoons, W. G. Clarke's quiet travelogue through the South's backwoods: each installation is an evocative interweaving of message and medium. The essays share a belief in the power of personal vision and human energy, which cannot be found by analytic means alone.Contributors include Gunter Behnisch, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Thomas Burton, W. G. Clark, Margaret Helfand, Louis Kahn, John Keenen, Thomas Leeser, Jean Nouvel, John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, Terence Riley, Aldo Rossi, Adele Santos, and Robert Venturi."

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Author:   Robert Joyce ,  Rossana Santos ,  Laura Turlington ,  Laura Turlington
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 30.50cm
Weight:   1.339kg
ISBN:  

9780262661027

ISBN 10:   0262661020
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 May 1997
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Division, intention: Berkeley lecture, 1966 - thoughts on architecture and personal expression - an informal presentation to students at Berkeley, Louis I. Kahn; Kahn in context, Ellen Morris; Kahn, a postscript, Ed Levin. Part 2 Inspiration and making: doctrines and uncertainties - questions for contemporary architecture - lectures at the Centre Pompidou, Jean Nouvel; for an open architecture - a discussion of collaboration and the design process - essays from the studio, Gunter Behnisch; excerpts from a conversation - thoughts on light, landscape and human experience - a personal statement, Adele Naude Santos; architecture, furniture and some of my dogs - comments on thinking, drawing and building - a brief statement and interview, Aldo Rossi; lost colony - reflections on inhabiting the American landscape - a short essay, W.G. Clark; an interview - personal and professional issues - questions and answers on recent projects, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Part 3 Process, projects: tectonic collage - critique and freehand studies for the Lambertville casino - a weekend retreat, John Keenan and Terence Riley; invisible architecture - critique and construction drawings for the Halley compound - an artists' studio, Deborah Berke and Carey McWhorter; reflection - critique and ink drawings for the Adlersberg residence - a bachelor's apartment, Margaret Helfand and Marti Cowan; tecto-totemic form - critique and model studies for the Seabird Island project - a remote primary school, Patricia and John Patkau; twisting strings - critique and computer images for the inverted house - a home for twin surgeons, Thomas Leeser; the aesthetic education of an architect - Louis I. Kahn, Joseph A. Burton; photocredits and colophon.

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