Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History - Walmart.
Cambridge Core - European Literature - The Cambridge History of Modernism - edited by Vincent Sherry.
A 1978 essay, “The Narcissistic Phase in Architecture,” anticipates the phenomenon of “starchitecture,” combining architectural history and psychoanalysis to encourage designers to resist.
Since the publication of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History (first edition 1980) there has been a keen consciousness of the role of criticism within architectural theory. Whilst referencing Derrida as a philosophical influence, deconstructivism can also be seen as having as much a basis in critical theory as the other major offshoot of postmodernism, critical.
Ram Raz reconceptualized an architectural past through assessment and analysis of architectural treatises originally written in Sanskrit, and in so doing, attempted to free a newly defined category of “Hindu” architecture from its Indo-Islamic context and argued for its formation through timeless concepts and trends. 8 Ram Raz showcased his findings in a volume titled, Essay on the.
The process of critical inquiry begins in the first year, with the two-semester core sequence, “Questions in Architectural History,” focused on the interaction of architecture and modernity across two centuries and taught by a group of senior history and theory faculty. In addition to introducing students to key examples, themes, and relationships, the course asks whose history is being.
After translating Graphic Design Theory, edited by Helen Armstrong (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), I embarked on a second project, Looking Closer 3 (Allworth Press, 1999), which guided me toward an investigation into 20th-century graphic design. Every essay demanded or inspired me to investigate beyond immediate references. Terms, names and dates and their implied meanings required.
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996) p. 62. 18. Quoted in Wylie Sypher, Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature (New York: Vintage Books, 1960) pp. 144--145. 19.