PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has published widely on many historical and theoretical topics, and is one of the discipline’s leading advocates for global history, publishing several books and articles on that topic including the ground-breaking textbook A Global History of Architecture (co-authored with Prakash and Ching, 2006).
Aphoristic, erudite, humorous, and extraordinarily capacious, Architecture Constructed deftly explores the thinker/maker opposition, the way it has played out in architecture, and the complex effects to which it has given rise. This is a consistently provocative and thought-provoking text - opinionated, challenging, and argued with bravado. * Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh, UK * Brilliantly written, Architecture Constructed uncovers blind spots in the very construction of architecture theory. In so doing, Jarzombek performs a Derridean deconstruction of long-established disciplinary concepts and manages, while constructing a grammatology of the discipline itself, to perform a 'Derrida' on Jacques Derrida himself. * Marc Angelil, ETH Zurich, Switzerland *
