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Modern European architecture has been characterised by a strong undercurrent of rationalist thought. Rationalist Traces aims to examine this legacy by establishing a cross-section of contemporary European architecture, placed in selected national contexts by critics including Ákos Moravánszky and Josep Maria Montaner. Subsequent interviews discuss the theoretical contributions of Giorgio Grassi and OM Ungers, and a survey of Max Dudler and De Architekten Cie.'s work sets out a consistency at one remove from avant-garde spectacle or everyday expediency. In Germany Rationalism offers a considered representation of state institutions, while elsewhere outstanding work reveals different approaches to rationality in architecture often recalling canonical Modernism or the 'Rational Architecture' of the later postwar period. Whether evident in patterns of thinking, a particular formal repertoire, a prevailing consistency or exemplified in individual buildings, this relationship informs the mature work of Patrick Berger, Claus en Kaan Architecten, Carlos Ferrater, Cino Zucchi or Hans Kollhoff. The buildings and projects of a younger generation - Javier García Solera, GWJ Architekten AG, biq, Andrea Bassi or Beniamino Servino - present a Rationalism less conditioned by a concern to promote a unifying aesthetic. While often sharing a deliberate economy of means, or a sensual sobriety, they present a more oblique or distanced relationship with the defining work of the 20th century.

Table of Contents:
Introduction On the Threshold of Rationalism Andrew Peckham, Charles Rattray and Torsten Schmiedeknecht The Dichotomies of Rationalism in 20th-Century Italian Architecture Andrew Peckham Selected Italian Projects Andrew Peckham and Lucia Tozzi In Interview with Giorgio Grassi Lucia Tozzi Concrete Constructs: The Limits of Rationalism in Swiss Architecture Ákos Moravánszky Selected Swiss Projects Torsten Schmiedeknecht Schinkel’s Order: Rationalist Tendencies in German Architecture Werner Durth and Roland May Selected German Projects Werner Durth and Roland May Rationalist Practice Max Dudler Dialogues with OMU Andrew Peckham and Torsten Schmiedeknecht The Employment of Reason Charles Rattray Dutch Selected Projects Charles Rattray Rationalist Practice De Architekten Cie. French Rationalism: A Broken Tradition Joseph Abram Selected French Projects Joseph Abram An Open and Flexible Tradition Josep Maria Montaner Selected Spanish Projects Josep Maria Montaner Interior Eye Foster + Partners’ Hearst Tower and Gehry Partners’ IAC Building Jayne Merkel Building Profile Pedro and Inês Bridge, Coimbra, Portugal Jeremy Melvin   Practice Profile Gert Wingårdh Timothy Tore Hebb Spiller’s Bits Mythic Collaboration Neil Spiller Userscape Brigitta Zics: Working on Interactive Potential Valentina Croci Yeang’s Eco-Files Part 1: Some Basic Premises for Green Design Ken Yeang McLean’s Nuggets Will McLean Why Critical Modernism? Charles Jencks Home Body Leon van Schaik Site Lines Hertzian Space: Material Response to Spatial Presence Mark Taylor

About the Author :
Andrew Peckham teaches architecture at the University of Westminster in London. He recently published 'Norwich Forum 1998-2001' in the Journal of Architecture. Charles Rattray read architecture at the University of Edinburgh and worked in practice for a number of years. He teaches at the University of Dundee, is a regular contributor to various architectural journals and is Associate Editor of Architectural Research Quarterly. Recent publications include Modern Ulster Architecture (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2006). Torsten Schmiedeknecht is an architect and currently a lecturer at the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He edited Fame and Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) with Julia Chance, and An Architect’s Guide to Fame (The Architectural Press, 2005) with Paul Davies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470028377
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Academy Press
  • Height: 276 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 211 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0470028378
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Architectural Design
  • Weight: 617 gr


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