{"product_id":"forty-ways-to-think-about-architecture-isbn-9781118822616","title":"Forty Ways to Think About Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? \u003ci\u003eForty Ways to Think about Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for this project is the work of Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), who has been internationally renowned as the UK’s leading academic in the discipline for 40 years. Forty’s many publications, notably \u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eWords and Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eConcrete and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), have been crucial to opening up new approaches to architectural history and theory and have helped to establish entirely new areas of study. His teaching at The Bartlett has enthused a new generation about the exciting possibilities of architectural history and theory as a field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. Concise and engaging entries reflect on architecture from a range of perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include eminent historians and theorists from elsewhere – such as Jean-Louis Cohen, Briony Fer, Hilde Heynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny Sparke and Anthony Vidler – as well as Forty’s colleagues from the Bartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint. \u003ci\u003eForty Ways to Think about Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e also features contributions from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics and architectural writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking and Thomas Weaver. Many of the contributors are former students of Adrian Forty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough these diverse essays, readers are encouraged to think about how architectural history and theory relates to their own research and design practices, thus using the work of Adrian Forty as a catalyst for fresh and innovative thinking about architecture as a subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdrian Forty, Future Imperfect: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at UCL in December 2000 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 How To Write About Buildings? 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Saint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Hultzsch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Vidler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Homely Affinities 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Penner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 On Regeneration 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Campkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Fresh Reactions to St Paul’s Cathedral 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian Stater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Photographs and Buildings (mainly) 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBriony Fer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Stirling’s Voice: A Detailed Suggestion 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Dunster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Carte Blanche? 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavide Deriu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Buildings: A Reader’s Guide 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGriselda Pollock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Most Modern Material Of Them All … 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilde Heynen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 ‘Things that People Cannot Anticipate’: Skateboarding at the Southbank Centre 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIain Borden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 ‘Truth, Love, Life’: Building with Language in Prague Castle under Masaryk 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrena Žantovská Murray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan Birksted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 During Breakfast 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Rendell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean-Louis Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Words and Buildings 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy Melvin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Slow Hard Look 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy Till\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Topography, Biography and Architecture 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe Kerr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Of Character and Concrete: The Historian’s Material 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Macarthur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Spectres of Marx in City X 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Charley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 History by Design 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Angel Place: A Way in to Dickens’s London 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKester Rattenbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 On ‘Sachlichkeit’: Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurent Stalder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Double Vision 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Swenarton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Modernism 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Mcleod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Yes, And We Have No Dentists 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Reyner Banham’s Hat 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurray Fraser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeg Rawes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Objects 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePenny Sparke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912–1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSir Peter Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Things Ungrand 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Wigglesworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 ‘Minor’ Spaces in Officers’ Bungalows of Colonial Bengal 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTania Sengupta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Memoirs of Adrian 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Weaver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 All That Glitters 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Dyckhoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 A Response to Words and Buildings 243\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Fretton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Material Culture: ‘Manchester of the East’, Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Perry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Mr Mumford’s Neighbourhood 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Menking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism 259\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYat Ming Loo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biographies 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhoto credits 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIain Borden\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is also Director of Architectural History \u0026amp; Theory and the Vice-Dean of Communications for the wider Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurray Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he acts as the Vice-Dean of Research for the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Penner\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she is Programme Director for both the PhD Architectural History \u0026amp; Theory and BSc Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHow do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? \u003ci\u003eForty Ways to Think about Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for this project is the work of Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), who has been internationally renowned as the UK’s leading academic in the discipline for 40 years. Forty’s many publications, notably \u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eWords and Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eConcrete and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), have been crucial to opening up new approaches to architectural history and theory and have helped to establish entirely new areas of study. His teaching at The Bartlett has enthused a new generation about the exciting possibilities of architectural history and theory as a field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. Concise and engaging entries reflect on architecture from a range of perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include eminent historians and theorists from elsewhere – such as Jean-Louis Cohen, Briony Fer, Hilde Heynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny Sparke and Anthony Vidler – as well as Forty’s colleagues from the Bartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint. \u003ci\u003eForty Ways to Think about Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e also features contributions from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics and architectural writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking and Thomas Weaver. 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