All Over the Map

Name: All Over the Map
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ISBN: 9781844672202

Writing on Buildings and Cities

Michael Sorkin

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English

Verso Books
15 February 2013

Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects

All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes

in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the

twenty-first century. Characteristically polemic, incisive and

energetic, these essays explore pressing questions of architectural and

urban design, and critical issues of public space and participation.

From New York to New Orleans, the Amazon to Jerusalem, Sorkin brings a

critical eye to bear on a sweeping range of subjects.

Whether

castigating the sorry performance of the architectural avant-garde,

considering the nature of place in globalized culture, or providing mock

instructions for entering a high-security environment, these writings

make a powerful and provocative case for architecture and urban design

to re-engage with the lives and societies from which they have become

increasingly detached.

By: Michael Sorkin
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 525g
ISBN: 9781844672202
ISBN 10: 1844672204
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 15 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Sorkin is an award-winning architect and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. In 2010, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in architecture. For ten years, Sorkin was architecture critic for the The Village Voice, and he has written for Architectural Record, The New York Times, The Architectural Review, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, Architectural Review, and the Nation. His books include Exquisite Corpses, After the World Trade Center, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan and All Over the Map.

Reviews for All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities

Easily one of the best architecture critics around ... Sorkin is a flaneur with a sense of public purpose. -- Chris Hall * Guardian * America's most invigorating writer on architecture. * Observer * Sorkin is one of the most intelligent writers on architecture today. * Library Journal * Sorkin is a formidable opponent of the banal, the ugly, the stupid and the vapidly posturing which, he argues, are all around us. * Publishers Weekly * [A]n intense mediation on the role of democracy in architecture, the role of the critic in that democracy and the dilemmas facing an architect who wants to make a difference (by working with that democracy) but needs to make a living (by pleasing an economic and political elite) ... One of the most impressive collections of contemporary criticism you could read. * Art Review * All Over the Map is a pleasure to read * Times Literary Supplement *