"Architecture and Criticism" is the title of Josep Maria Montaner's last book. The architect and author revises the history of architectural criticism as he introduces the key thinkers of modern and contemporary historiography.

Description of the book

Since its first edition in 1999, Architecture and Criticism has become one of the referential introductory texts to architectural criticism and historiography.
 

What is criticism? What are its objectives and meanings? Does it make any sense?


This book, which is now edited for the third time, answers this questions in a brief and didactic manner, focusing on the relation between architecture and criticism throughout history.

From the pioneers of architectural criticism in the 19th century, to the main characters of modern historiography, like Sigried Giedion, the texts of outstanding architects like Adolf Loos or Le Corbusier, the different interpretations that emerged from existentialism, phenomenology, iconography or structuralism, like Aldo Rossi, Manfredo Tafuri and Colin Rowe, to the poststructuralist scene, with Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas or Kenneth Frampton; this basic guide presents a historic overview of architectural criticism, from its origins to our days.


Text: Josep Maria Montaner.

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Size.- 13 x 20 cm.
Number of pages.- 128 pg.
Published by Gustavo Gili.
Year: 2013
3rd Edition.
ISBN: 9788425227097

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Josep María Montaner (1954) is architect, writer and professor at ETSAB-UPC. He have obtained 5 six-years terms at CNEAI because of the quality of his researcher investigation. He has also been invited professor in different European, American and Asian University. He has co-directed with the professor Zaida Muxí the Master called "LAboratorio de la Vivienda del siglo XXI", which is imparted  at the ETSAB.

He is the author of about thirty books translated into several languages, being the lattest one "Sistemas arquitectónicos contemporáneos" (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2008), and he usually publishes in architecture magazines and in the Spanish dailys El País and La Vanguardia.

He is director of the researching project "Archivo documental para una revista crítica del modelo Barcelona".

He has been deputy director of culture at ETSAB (2002-2005).

He has obtained Premio Construmat for his articles in El País (1989); Premio Espais de Crítica de Arte (1992); Premio Bonaplata de Difusión por la defensa del patrimonio industrial (1993) and Premio Nacional de Urbanismo a la iniciativa periodística 2005 del Ministerio de Vivienda, because of his articles in the newspapers El País and La Vanguardia.

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Published on: October 22, 2013
Cite: ""Architecture and Criticism", by Josep Maria Montaner" METALOCUS. Accessed
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