Architecture of the Everyday

Architecture of the Everyday

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic fads.Â Architecture of the EverydayÂ makes a plea for an architecture that is emphatically un-monumental, anti-heroic, and unconcerned with formal extravagance. Edited by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris, this collection of writings, photo-essays, and projects describes an architecture that draws strength from its simplicity, use of common materials, and relationship to other fields of study. Topics range from a website that explores the politics of domesticity, to a transformation of the sidewalk in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, to a discussion of the work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Contributors include Margaret Crawford, Peggy Deamer, Deborah Fausch, Ben Gianni and Mark Robbins, Joan Ockman, Ernest Pascucci, Alan Plattus, and Mary-Ann Ray.Â Deborah BerkeÂ andÂ Steven HarrisÂ are currently associate professors of architecture at Yale University, and have their own practices in New York City.

Country	USA
Author	Steven Harris
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781616891206
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Princeton Architectural Press
Manufacturer	Princeton Architectural Press
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2012-04-17
Publisher	Princeton Architectural Press
ReleaseDate	2012-04-17
Studio	Princeton Architectural Press

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