Research Catalog

Title

Authorship / [edited by] Mónica Ponce de León ; Ellie Abrons [and 15 others].

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University School of Architecture, [2019]
• Princeton, New Jersey : Distributed by Princeton University Press

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Details

Additional Authors

Ponce de León, Mónica.

Description

156 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture's cultural production? In Authorship, a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores this topic through a myriad of lenses. Subjects include the impact of digital tools and computational scripts on the conception of buildings in the age of robotics, the current climate of appropriation and sampling as a counter-form of authorship, and the rise of reauthored materials in a postdigital age. These questions are cast against alternative ideas of authorship that, in turn, reposition the history of architecture. Featured essays investigate the separation between the personal and the authored while other contributions expose meaning, symbolism, and iconography as the subjects of authority--not authorship. Ultimately, this book dismantles, realigns, and reassembles disparate architectural conditions to form new ways of thinking. Discourse is a biannual publication series that presents timely themes on and around architecture. A selective compilation of essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, featured exhibitions, photo-essays, and collateral materials--such as architectural models, sketches, and built works--highlight architectural culture, practice, and theory.

Series Statement

Discourse, A Series on Architecture ; 1

Uniform Title

Discourse, A Series on Architecture ; 1

Subject

• Architectural writing
• Architecture and technology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

On authorship / Mónica Ponce de León -- Author after author / Ellie Abrons -- Authoring materials / Curt Gambetta -- The ownership revolution : digital culture and the transformation of architectural practice and ideals / Antoine Picon -- Discourse on the ownership revolution / Lucia Allais -- Thom Mayne, on architecture & other selfless subjects / Jesse Reiser -- W.I.P.#183: Thom Mayne / Eda Yteim -- The end of authority / Peter Eisenman with Julian Rose -- Creative miscegenation in architecture, a theorem / Marshall Brown -- Selected work / Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger -- Architecture as instrument / Hal Foster -- Signatures / Florencia Pita and Jackilin Bloom -- Signature in the age of Siri / Sylvia Lavin.

Call Number

NA2540

ISBN

• 0964264102
• 9780964264106

LCCN

40029814769

OCLC

• on1028780400
• 1028780400
• SCSB-14609274

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries