The Architecture of the Real
A plea against the flood of images in building culture
In contemporary architecture, the inflationary spread of the pictorial has led to an implosion of content. I argue for an architecture that is not based exclusively on the pictorial. Two different approaches of realist movements in modernism are analyzed: The early functionalists, Team Ten, and the populists of the 1960s defined architecture through the social, while later tendencies such as Critical Regionalism and Dirty Realism emphasized sensual experience. More recent approaches, on the other hand, refer to the factual. An innovative approach to the requirements of building practice opens up new resources here.
Print, 40,00 EUR
Softcover
8/2023, 248 pages
71 black and white and 38 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-3-8376-6589-5