The Secret Life of Buildings

An American Mythology for Modern Architecture
Neuauflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-262-63118-1
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse

American architecture is undergoing fundamental changes. Gavin Macrae-Gibson interprets this new architecture in critiques of Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica (the representation of perception); Peter Eisenman's House El Even Odd (millenial anxiety); Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers (a sensibility of silence); Michael Graves's Portland Building (a concern for the sublime); Robert Stern's Bozzi House (a discussion of scenography); Alan Greenberg's Manchester Superior Court Building (the continuity of the classical); and Robert Venturi's Gordon Wu Hall Princeton (an irony of the difficult whole). The author rejects modernist explanations of these recent architectural achievements in favor of a new poetic logic that he combines with a formal analysis to reveal the layers of meaning present in each building, including the deepest layer its secret life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macrae-Gibson, Gavin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Macrae-Gibson, Gavin
Gavin Macrae-Gibson is a practicing architect. He has been Visiting Lecturer in Architectural Theory at Yale University since 1982, and has taught and lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada.