Architecture and Disjunction

 

Architecture and Disjunction
Architecture and Disjunction
by Authors: Bernard Tschumi
Released: 28 February, 1996
ISBN: 0262700603
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Architecture and Disjunction > Customer Review #1:
The most relevant study on Theory of Architecture in decades

In an amazing collection of essays, Tschumi criticizes both modernism objectivity and post-modern nostalgia. His most important proposition -- that there is no cause and effect relationship between function and space -- is a kick in the teeth of functionalist thinkers. Instead of "form and function", he proposes an architecture based on "space, event and movement", in which the conflit and contradictions between the terms of the equation is its most relevant aspect. "Architecture and disjunction" is a Pandoras Box -- some of the questions it proposes are painful and disturbing (like "what is space?", for instance), but have been overlooked long enough. To paraphrase Morpheus in the movie "The Matrix", "you can take the blue pill, and believe whatever you like, or you can read the little red book, stay in Wonderland, and Ill show how deep the rabbit hole goes..."

Architecture and Disjunction > Customer Review #2:
priceless collection of essays by Tschumi

Architecture and Disjunction, will undoubtedly be one of the seminal books of the millenium. This priceless collection of essays hammers out, quite artfully, Tschumis slank on architecture. Covering roughly 20 years of theory and practice AandD pokes at the ideology of Modernism and Post Modernism. A brilliant read for the antagonist!

Architecture and Disjunction > Customer Review #3:
Its a book from and for heterotopia

This book is a compilation of essays regarding several architectural themes under a particularly radical point of view. Tschumi proposes, all through the 20 or so years of intellectual work, a complex architecture based on the heterogeneous nature of human behavior and the events it produces and leads, but also introduces an element of architectural reflection criticizing contemporary concepts -the architecture as skin- and its ephemeral condition, a postmodern zeigeist. I personally think is a manifest upon architectural themes conditioned by the unconscious prejudices carried by architectural scholars formed under the shade of modernism, showing the particular fracture of theory and practice in the field work and calling the things by its names, evidencing the mediatic circumstance of architectural development amidst the revolution of communication and -as an excel teacher- imparting his own good points of view. I think its a book from and for heterotopia.

 
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