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Book SynopsisArchitecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between
arche and
tecktonbetween those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persisting through Classical and Renaissance times to the present day, and yet it has rarely been addressed through a historical and theoretical lens.In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature of the history of architecture. He reveals architecture to be a troubled, interconnected realm, incomplete and unstable, where labor, craft, and occupation are the invisible' complements to the work of the architect. Erudite, entertaining, and full of surprising and thought-provoking juxtapositions and challenges,
Architecture Constructed is packed with novel insights into the internal conflicts and paradoxes of architecture, and is rich with
Trade ReviewAphoristic, erudite, humorous, and extraordinarily capacious,
Architecture Constructed deftly explores the thinker/maker opposition, the way it has played out in architecture, and the complex effects to which it has given rise. This is a consistently provocative and thought-provoking text – opinionated, challenging, and argued with bravado. * Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh, UK *
Brilliantly written,
Architecture Constructed uncovers blind spots in the very construction of architecture theory. In so doing, Jarzombek performs a Derridean deconstruction of long-established disciplinary concepts and manages, while constructing a grammatology of the discipline itself, to perform a ‘Derrida' on Jacques Derrida himself. * Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich, Switzerland *
Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Part 1 1: Preface 2: Arche-Tekton 3: Shell Games Part 2 1: Befores and Afters 2: Dialectics of (In)Completion 3: Post-Teleology Part 3 1: The Curse of Socrates 2: Occupationality 3: Faber Ingenium Part 4 1: ’Architecture’ 2: Anamorphic Realism Part 5 1: Arche-Soci(arche)ology 2: Arche-2 3: Laugier's Haunts Part 6 1: Tekton-Topia Part 7 1: Master-Builder 2: Tekton Libidinalism 3: ‘Construction’ De-Positioning Postscript List of Credits Index
