Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity: 4 Essays

by Gevork Hartoonian

Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architecture's contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding, and labor.

Fundamental to this proposition is the historicity of Gottfried Semper's theorization of architecture amidst the outpouring of new materials and construction techniques during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032418680
• ISBN13: 9781032418681
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"