Description
Book SynopsisBuilding on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes, voices, and geographies represented to provide a more comprehensive and contemporary theory book.
This book presents major discourses in architectural theory and design in a debate-like format, integrating a series of edited texts across architectural history with context and newly written commentaries by the authors. This new edition has been fully revised, updated, and expanded to include long-standing debates, such as simplicity vs. complexity or the relationship between form and function, as well as newer discussions on innovation, globalization, and social equity. Authors Smith and Guitart provide a comprehensive means and conceptual framework for readers to compare multiple points of view. The chapter structure, discussion questions, and additional resources allow t
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'More than yet another synoptic overview of architectural theory this is an exemplary pedagogical record of an on- going course in architectural theory & criticism as given to graduate students of architecture in a major university. As such it is without parallel.'
Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor of Architecture. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York
'With their international experience as educators, Korydon Smith and Miguel Guitart offer an engaging text for both beginning architecture students and established architects. It is a useful tool for broadening our knowledge of architectural design and better understanding the decisions that architects make.'
Rafael Moneo, Josep Lluis Sert Professor in Architecture, Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
'Advocating for the centrality and vitality of theory in design discourse, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate offers young architecture students a compendium of texts and strategies for developing a critical position for their work through thematically organized texts of historical and contemporary theory. Neither canon nor anthology, it asks its audience to reflect on and respond to the diversity and complexity of this moment in the discipline and practice of architecture. Smith’s and Guitart's book is a must-read for architecture students and educators alike pursuing an interest in architectural theory necessity for the discipline and profession today.'
Sharon Haar, FAIA, NOMA, Professor. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Table of ContentsPart 1: Debate in Architecture Introduction: To Students: Why Architectural Theory is Vital to Your Education and Your Career Part 2: Dialectical Readings in Architecture 1. Space and Structure 2. Function and Form 3. Exterior and Interior 4. Simplicity and Complexity 5. Honesty and Illusion 6. Material and Immaterial 7. Body and Building 8. Cognition and Emotion 9. Natural and Constructed 10. Local and Global 11. Tradition and Innovation 12. Exclusivity and Inclusivity
