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The Sniper's Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation-X

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Sniper's Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation-X
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:198
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 152
Category/GenreTheory of architecture
ISBN/Barcode 9788492861224
ClassificationsDewey:720.1
Audience
General
Edition English ed.
Illustrations Illustrations (chiefly col.)

Publishing Details

Publisher ActarD Inc
Imprint ActarD Inc
Publication Date 14 January 2013
Publication Country Spain

Description

This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo's professional life. The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, and academic presentations), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience that reveals that theory is here primarily instrumental and seeks efficiency rather than truth. We do not theorise because we want to understand the deep truths of the world, but because we need to organise the realm where we operate, understand how reality works and find an effective way to perform within it.