Differences

Topographies of Contemporary Architecture

Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Graham Thompson, Graham Thompson , Graham Thomson

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Spanish

MIT Press
07 January 1997

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Theory of architecture

Series: Writing Architecture

Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sol -Morales. Differencesbrings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction especially for this English edition.

Contemplating the panorama of contemporary art and architecture, de Sola-Morales posits that there is no one way to describe today's practice; instead he concentrates on elucidating the present dynamic of contrast, diversity, and tension.

In an unorthodox pairing, de Sola-Morales derives his inspiration from both phenomenology and Deleuzean poststructuralism. Combining these philosophical inheritances allows him to reinvoke the human subject without referring to classical humanism or announcing the death of the object. His retrospective review of the disciplines of art and architecture, particularly as they have developed since World War II, provokes him to design, draft, and ultimately build a description of Modernism s lineage of subjectivity. The result is a provocative construction of fluid ""topographies"" that articulate, rather than depict, the shaky ground on which our current artistic and architectural production rests.

The essays- Sado-masochism- Criticism and Architectural Practice. Topographies of Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe and Minimalism. Architecture and Existentialism. Weak Architecture. From Autonomy to Untimeliness. Place- Permanence or Production. Difference and Limit- Individualism in Contemporary Architecture. High-Tech- Functionalism or Rhetoric. The Work of Architecture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

By: Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Graham Thompson
Translated by: Graham Thompson, Graham Thomson
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780262540858
ISBN 10: 0262540851
Series: Writing Architecture
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 07 January 1997
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kenneth Thompson is a Senior Lecturers in Sociology at Britain's Open University.

Reviews for Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture

""Following traces that are neither modern nor postmodern, Ignasi deSola-Morales opens a deterritorialized territory harboring richpossibilities for architectural theory and practice. Philosophicallyastute and critically savvy, Differences resists the fashionableallure of nihilism by discerning creative resources circulating in thechaotic currents of contemporary culture."" Mark C. Taylor, Preston S. Parish Professor of Humanities, Williams College ""Ignasi de Sola-Morales' term starting points perfectlycaptures the light and acute temperament of these essays. With the nimbleease of Deleuzean vectors, these writings start from contemporary practiceand move into fresh horizons of architectural thinking. At a time when mostarchitectural writing seems to fall within either the limits of journalismor the rigorous territories of academic research, this collection of textsdraws an unfrequented path of discourse, a topography that becomes aninvitation to approach architectural ideas through pleasures of reading."" Xavier Costa, Head, Department of Architecture,Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain