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K. Michael Hays Andrew Holder

Inscriptions

Architecture Before Speech

K. Michael Hays,  Andrew Holder

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English
Harvard University Press
17 May 2022
Theory of architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. Against the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centerless field where anything goes and everything is possible, this book argues that much recent work belongs to a collective undertaking. Underneath the impression of kaleidoscopic difference produced by the rapid circulation of design images, there is a shared mechanism, an agreement about how architectural objects emerge from the procedures of design. This mechanism, which we call inscription, manages to both offer fundamentally intelligible form to architecture's audiences, while at the same time advancing the field toward novel outcomes. The ensuing work is nothing less than democratically optimistic in its wide appeal and challenging in its cuts against convention.

Featuring essays by Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen, Phillip Denny, Edward Eigen, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, and Marrikka Trotter, Inscriptions offers a broad array of critical perspectives on work that defines architecture's second decade of the twenty-first century.
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Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 42mm
Weight:   2.178kg
ISBN:   9781934510797
ISBN 10:   1934510793
Pages:   624
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory and Codirector of the Master in Design Studies Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Andrew Holder is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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