Building Theories: Architecture as the Art of Building
Franca Trubiano
Résumé
Building Theories explores significant and timely topics for both the design and construction of contemporary architecture by challenging its very practice of theory.
- Approaches the subject of building technology from the perspective of theory
- Encourages the larger field of architectural technology to think more critically about the deployment of its methods, products and processes
- Written in highly intelligible language to convey complexities clearly and succinctly to the reader.
1. Thinking through Building 2. Building and the Treatise 3. Architect as Builder and Thinker 4. Matter(s) Hidden in Plain Sight 5. Lost in Translation 6. From Aesthetics to Ethics, and back 7. Design and Construction - Walter Gropius and Ove Arup 8. The Composite Mind Re-Builds Theory Bibliography Index
Franca Trubiano is Associate Professor and Graduate Group Chair of the PhD program in Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania and a licensed architect with the Ordre des Architectes du Quebec. She received graduate and post-graduate degrees from McGill University and a doctorate in the history and theory of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Previous publications include Women [Re]Build: Stories , Polemics , Futures (ORO, 2019) and Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes , Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (Routledge, 2013). She teaches and conducts research on forced labor in the built environment, emerging materials and human health, tectonic theories, integrated design, and architectural ecologies.
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| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Taylor&francis |
| Auteur(s) | Franca Trubiano |
| Parution | 24/11/2022 |
| Nb. de pages | 632 |
| EAN13 | 9781138859043 |
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