Perspecta 40 Monster: The Yale Architectural Journal

by Jacob Reidel and Frida Rosenberg

A monster is in our midst, and its name is Architecture.

Contemporary architecture is in many ways a monstrous thing. It is bigger, more broadly defined, increasingly complicated, more costly, and stylistically and formally heterogeneous--if not downright unhinged. Not only is the scale of the built environment expanding, but so is the territory of the architectural profession itself. A perfect storm of history, technology, economics, politics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262572443
• ISBN13: 9780262572446
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher