Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto (e-book)
> First manifesto dedicated to one of the most important forms of critical architectural representation in the twentieth century
>Comprehensive exploration of alternative models of architectural and urban thinking and representation
>A critical genealogy of key architectural events in the twentieth century from Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas
> Provides architecture historians, practitioners, students and the general public with a blueprint with which to ask critical questions about the pressing challenges affecting the world today
This historical genealogy in three parts weaves inseparable modern architecture and narrative critique through never before seen images of half a century of utopian, heroic, commercial, ironic and critical projects by Le Corbusier, Team 10, Constant, Victor Gruen, Yona Friedman, Archizoom, Superstudio and Rem Koolhaas.
Alluding to Diogenes, the ancient kynic who wandered with a lantern in search of an honest man, through narrative, archival and provocative images and texts, the book lays the groundwork in search of an honest architecture able to question the pressing challenges of our times.
Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski are architects, educators, codirectors of international studio WAI Architecture Think Tank and authors of Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture.
Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski / WAI Architecture Think Tank
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Michelle Garnaut, Institute for Optimistic Architectures, Jan Sobotka
Team Thursday
978-94-6208-562-6
January 2020
sold out
English
132 p
e-book
