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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander Tzonis , Liane LefaivrePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.720kg ISBN: 9781472476449ISBN 10: 1472476441 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 14 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Times of Creative Destruction 1963 Search for a New Urbanity: Commentary (Alexander Tzonis) 1967 Structure and Randomness in Museum Architecture (Alexander Tzonis) 1967 Lobbies. Ambiguous Voids in the Urban Fabric. The Obsolescence of Egyptian Tomb Style at the Time of Technological Catacombs (Alexander Tzonis) 1969 Letter from Harvard (Alexander Tzonis) 1967 Ideological Architecture (Alexander Tzonis) 1969 Transformations of the Initial Structure (Alexander Tzonis) 1969 The Last Identity Crisis in Architecture (Alexander Tzonis) 1974 The Mechanical vs. Divine Body. The Rise of modern Design Theory in Europe (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1975 The Populist Movement in Architecture (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1977 Sentimental Geometry and the Therapeutic Landscape (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1978 The Narcissist Phase in Architecture (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1981 The Grid and the Pathway (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1984 The Question of Autonomy in Architecture (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1989 The Bastion as a Mentality (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1990 Huts, Ships and Bottleracks: Design by Analogy for Architects and/or Machines (Alexander Tzonis) 1990 Dirty Realism. Making the Stone Stony (Liane Lefaivre) 1990 Eros, Architecture and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Liane Lefaivre) 1991 Lewis Mumford's Regionalism (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1992 Planning and Tomatoes (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1996 Skin Rigorism Alexander (Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 1998 Beyond Monuments, Beyond Zip-a-tone. Shadrach Woods's Berlin Free University, a Humanist Architecture (Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis) 1999 Pikionis and Transvisibility (Alexander Tzonis) 2001 L'Architecture au Collège de France, L'Intelligence Spatiale (Alexander Tzonis) 2002 Community in the Mind, a Model for Personal and Collaborative Design (Alexander Tzonis) 2005 Puer Ludens (Liane Lefaivre) 2013 Region Making (Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre) 2015 Putting on a Pretty Face (Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis) ConclusionReviews'In addition to more than two dozen essays, many reproduced as facsimiles of the original magazine and journal articles, Tzonis and Lefaivre have included contextual introductions that reappraise, with a light touch and easy good humor, the intentions and ideas behind their writings while offering revealing insights into more than 50 years of debates, battles, and false dawns.' Jamie Jensen, Architectural International Professional Practice Review 'In addition to more than two dozen essays, many reproduced as facsimiles of the original magazine and journal articles, Tzonis and Lefaivre have included contextual introductions that reappraise, with a light touch and easy good humor, the intentions and ideas behind their writings while offering revealing insights into more than 50 years of debates, battles, and false dawns.' Jamie Jensen, Architectural International Professional Practice Review 'In addition to more than two dozen essays, many reproduced as facsimiles of the original magazine and journal articles, Tzonis and Lefaivre have included contextual introductions that reappraise, with a light touch and easy good humor, the intentions and ideas behind their writings while offering revealing insights into more than 50 years of debates, battles, and false dawns.' Jamie Jensen, Architectural International Professional Practice Review Author InformationAlexander Tzonis is professor emeritus at the University of Technology Delft. He was educated at Yale University and taught at Harvard University between 1967 and 1981, at the College de France and Tsinghua University. Among his publications, The Shape of Community (Penguin, 1972) with Serge Chermayeff, Towards a Non-oppressive Environment, (1972). Liane Lefaivre is Professor Ordinaria (retired) at the University of Applied Art in Vienna. Among her books are Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (MIT Press, 1996) and The Child, the City and Power of Play (Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2010). Among the books Lefaivre and Tzonis authored together are Classical Architecture (1986), Emergence of Modern Architecture (Routledge 2004), and Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization, Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World, (Routledge, 2011). 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