1st Edition

Palladio's Children Essays on Everyday Environment and the Architect

By N.J. Habraken, Jonathan Teicher Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

224 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

224 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

Based on many years of personal observation,  Palladio's Children  critically examines the role of the architect as a professional descendent of Palladio, and as an heir to his architectural legacy. Seven innovative and carefully crafted essays explore the widening ideological schism between today’s architects whose core values, identity and education remain rooted in the Renaissance... Read more

1. A Role Model  2. Leaving the Field  3. About Fields  4. Encounters with the Field  5. In the Field  6. Engaging the Field  7. About an Attitude in Making Architecture

Biography

N.J. Habraken, Professor Emeritus, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has enjoyed a worldwide following for four decades. He is the author of seven books, the subject of two recent ones and his recent publication of The Structure of the Ordinary (MIT 1998) was widely reviewed internationally. He is most well known as founder of the Open Building movement, founding director of the SAR Research Institute and as founding chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at Eindhoven University.

Jonathan Teicher is an architect and author. He lectures in architecture and is a former American Institute of Architects bureaucrat.

'So handsome, finely produced and well written.' - Nick Wilkinson, Open House International, 2005