AA Words 1-4
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Architecture Words is a new series, with emphasis on the written word as a basis for critical debate by contemporary architects and theorists.
Architecture Words 1: Supercritical: Peter Eisenman meets Rem Koolhaas is based on an evening of conversation at the AA in 2006. Each architect states his views about the terms of architecture, including its theories and relationship to the city and other forms of critical and cultural practice.
In Architecture Words 2: Anti-Object, Kengo Kuma argues that this mindset prevents us from establishing a healthy relationship with the external world and suggests that an alternative form of architecture is not only desirable but possible as well. His approach is illustrated with a discussion of works by his office in which he has sought, by various tactics, to avoid objectification.
Architecture Words 3: The Poetics of a Wall Projection by Jan Turnovsky was originally published in German in 1985 as »Die Poetik eines Mauervorsprung«. It is a ostensibly a description of a corner within the breakfast room of the Villa Stonborough in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Engelmann, but it is also much more.
Architecture Words 4: Having Words by Denise Scott Brown collects together for the first time ten essays of the pioneering architect and urban planner – from her 1969 text, »On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning« to »Towards an Active Socioplastics« from 2007, which offers an overview of Scott Brown’s education and the gestation of her key architectural and urban ideas.