The Portfolio and the Diagram

Architecture, Discourse, and Modernity in America

Hyungmin Pai

384 pages, parution le 30/04/2006

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Résumé

Architects today do not use the glossy photographs of magazines in the same way that nineteenth-century architects mobilized drawings in grand folios. The images have changed, and so have the ways in which they are used. The Portfolio and the Diagram is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the words and images of architectural publications.

The book begins with an outline of the academic discipline and the mimetic practice of the portfolio established in America during the late nineteenth century. World War I triggered a historical process that resulted in the demise of the portfolio and the emergence of what Hyungmin Pai calls the discourse of the diagram. The Beaux-Arts-trained architects had fashioned their discipline through the meticulous object-centered images of the portfolio. The discourse of the diagram provided a new range of possibility in the architect's relation to words, images, and buildings. More than the province of narrow-minded functionalists, more than simply the architectural use of diagrams, the discourse of the diagram is a complex formation of texts, concepts, and modes of representation.

Concerned less with constructing a new kind of modernism than with understanding the boundaries and structures of modernity, this book is a history of modern architecture as a discursive practice and its striving to become a viable discipline.

L'auteur - Hyungmin Pai

Hyungmin Pai is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Seoul.

Sommaire

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Portfolio and Academic Discourse: Formation and Crisis
The Search for a New Discipline
The Discourse of the Diagram
Epilogue: The Instrument of Modern Architecture
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Hyungmin Pai
Parution	30/04/2006
Nb. de pages	384
Format	20 x 22
Couverture	Broché
Poids	836g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262661959
ISBN13	978-0-262-66195-9