A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture

by Jeffrey Kipnis

Book Overview

Essays on contemporary architecture that are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation.

Jeffrey Kipnis's writing, thinking, and teaching casts architecture as both an intellectual discourse and a lived, affective experience. His essays on contemporary architects are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation. In these eleven essays, written between 1990...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262519550
• ISBN13: 9780262519557
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher