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Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

Name: Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation
Author: Stan Allen
ISBN: 9781135763756

by Stan Allen

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Essays by Stan Allen. Commentary by Diana Agrest. Foreword by Saul Ostrow. Architect and theorist Stan Allen examines how different modes of representation affect architectural practice, how, for example, the choice of axonometric, orthographic, or perspective representation reflects complex preconceptions about space, visuality, and design. In addition, he analyzes the role of media in architecture. Diana Agrest situates Allen's work in the wider context of semiotic and structuralist debate on paradigms of representation.

About the Author, Stan Allen

Stan Allen is a practicing architect and Dean at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. Responding to the complexity of the modern city in creative ways, Stan Allen has developed an extensive catalogue of urbanistic strategies, in particular looking at field theory, landscape architecture and ecology as models to revitalize the practices of urban design. In addition to design awards and competition prizes, he has been awarded Fellowships in Architecture from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, a Design Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Graham Foundation Grant, and a President's Citation from The Cooper Union.

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Nine essays that practicing architect Allen wrote between 1989 and 1997 and extensively reworked over the next two years explore how the modes of representation and techniques of realization available to the architect affect the practice. Though conversant in contemporary theory and architecture history, he argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. He includes many monochrome photographs, but no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)