1st Edition
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century
By Graham Cairns
Copyright 2017
284 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky, Peggy Deamer, Robert A.M. Stern, Daniel Libeskind and Kenneth Frampton. Each chapter explores... Read more
Foreword by Murray Fraser. Introduction. Part 1: Interview Articles The First of the Format Part 2: Views from the United States and the United Kingdom 1. Noam Chomsky 2. Robert A. M. Stern 3. Peggy Deamer 4. Peter Nears 5. Stephen Hodder 6. Michael Sorkin 7. Paul Goldberger 8. Clare Devine 9. Daniel Libeskind 10. Steven Weir and Gareth Hepworth 11. Kenneth Frampton Part 3: An International Perspective Jonathan Woetzel Index
Biography
Graham Cairns is an internationally recognized academic and author. Based at Columbia University, New York, while writing this book, he is now Senior Honorary Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He is Director of the international research organization AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) and Executive Editor of its scholarly journal, Architecture_MPS. The author and editor of eight books on architecture as visual culture and as a socio-political construct, he has delivered keynote talks internationally and has published multiple articles in interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals.
