…the bold, realistic, self-evident, straight-forward, honest answer to all questions of design and appearance in man’s artificial environment.12 When it comes to architecture, Boyd’s critique of “featurism” can best be…
…Taylor’s John Andrews: architecture a performing art, written with Andrews, a connection is made between Andrews’ attitude to design and the approach of Hertzberger and van Eyck, and Andrews comments…
…foreshadows the forms that eventually dominated Torroja’s later works. 487 Searching for modern forms in Spain’s vernacular architecture In 1927, at age twenty-eight, Torroja left Hidrocivil to found his own…
…for the associated intangible fabric of time, history, and experience to be maintained and enhanced within a contemporary sensibility. Adaptive reuse enables the story of architecture to continue, told through…
…terms ‘character’ and ‘composition’.45 Rowe’s writings represented a search for a ‘theory of contemporary vision’46 and the desire to open an alternate path to the contemporaneous Townscape movement.47 Isometry and…
…much earlier, after 1918. From here, with successive steps taken in distance and time, we find its capacity to absorb rhetoric and meaning to be commensurate with shifts into more…