Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
196Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
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ISBN-13: | 9780262660990 |
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Publisher: | MIT Press |
Publication date: | 10/29/1996 |
Series: | Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse |
Pages: | 196 |
Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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I wish to recommend wholeheartedly Ann Pendleton-Jullian's book. The project in Chile is mysterious, haunting, and magical. These architects speak to the sun and the moon, the earth and they sky. The photographs that Ann Pendleton-Jullian has taken, I believe, capture the mystical spirit of place and of Architecture. There will be a real response to this book because it rings true, is authentic and it loves Architecture. It is also an extremely important book, particularly as it comes out during this period of time, when most architecture is fashionable, thin and our language is perverted. Here we have a clear statement and obviously all the people involved are committed to the poetry of Architecture, space, landscape, and a culture.
The fascinating premise of this book is the belief in the possibility offounding a city in poetic acts, removing architecture from abstract geometry and centering it on the poetic word. I am very positive about this book and certainly recommend it. The questions it raises are extremely important for the practice of architecture, and particularly forthe teaching of the discipline. The author describes the Open City and its theoretical premises with great love. The existence of the experimental city itself is rather unknown in North America. This is a work that deserves to be better known in the English speaking world, in the context of other important pedagogical experiments in architecture ranging from the Bauhaus and Ulm to Cooper Union.
Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Saidye Rosner BronfmanProfessor of the History of Architecture; Director, History and Theoryof Architecture Graduate Program, McGill University
I wish to recommend wholeheartedly Ann Pendleton-Jullian's book. The project in Chile is mysterious, haunting, and magical. These architects speak to the sun and the moon, the earth and they sky. The photographs that Ann Pendleton-Jullian has taken, I believe, capture the mystical spirit of place and of Architecture. There will be a real response to this book because it rings true, is authentic and it loves Architecture. It is also an extremely important book, particularly as it comes out during this period of time, when most architecture is fashionable, thin and our language is perverted. Here we have a clear statement and obviously all the people involved are committed to the poetry of Architecture, space, landscape, and a culture.
John Hejduk, Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper UnionThe fascinating premise of this book is the belief in the possibility offounding a city in poetic acts, removing architecture from abstract geometry and centering it on the poetic word. I am very positive about this book and certainly recommend it. The questions it raises are extremely important for the practice of architecture, and particularly forthe teaching of the discipline. The author describes the Open City and its theoretical premises with great love. The existence of the experimental city itself is rather unknown in North America. This is a work that deserves to be better known in the English speaking world, in the context of other important pedagogical experiments in architecture ranging from the Bauhaus and Ulm to Cooper Union.
Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Saidye Rosner BronfmanProfessor of the History of Architecture; Director, History and Theoryof Architecture Graduate Program, McGill University