Critical Architecture

Paperback

Main Details

Title Critical Architecture
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jane Rendell
Edited by Jonathan Hill
Edited by Mark Dorrian
Edited by Murray Fraser
SeriesCritiques
Series part Volume No. v. 3
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 246,Width 174
Category/GenreTheory of architecture
ISBN/Barcode 9780415415385
ClassificationsDewey:720.1
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Edition New edition
Illustrations 88 black & white halftones

Publishing Details

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Publication Date 4 September 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts. With forty essays by an international cast of leading architectural academics, this accessible single source text on the topical subject of architectural criticism is ideal for undergraduate as well as post graduate study.

Author Biography

Jane Rendell is Professor of Architecture and Art and Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory and Director of the MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster in London. Mark Dorrian is Reader in Architecture at the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh and co-director of Metis.