Reconstructing Architecture for the Twenty-first Century : : An Inquiry into the Architect's World / / Anthony Jackson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. The Problem --; 2. Myth and Architecture --; 3. Architecture and Culture --; 4. Culture and Class --; 5. Class and Architects --; 6. Architects and Design --; Notes --; Picture Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442679061; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442679061
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anthony Jackson.

This volume is an eloquent and farsighted call for a new approach to thinking about, producing, and inhabiting architecture. Using a richly conceived architectural history as a means for analysing debates that reverberate throughout the arts and human sciences, Anthony Jackson demystifies the myths of the architectural profession and in so doing reveals the way it has arisen out of particular relations of power in a world shifting from autocracy to democracy.Jackson exposes the inadequacies of old conceptions of architecture as embodying metaphysical properties, and of architects as the sole keepers of this esoteric knowledge. He challenges architects to acknowledge and celebrate building as an expression of the ideals and values of the broader-based classless communities to which they now belong. The less people are excluded from the design process, the more likely it is to be effective in bringing about a human-made environment which enriches the lives of its inhabitants.In examining intersecting ideas about myth, culture, class, and design, the author draws examples from a wide array of architectural styles, ranging from Classical to Post Modern. The result is a work that is extraordinarily provocative and useful for architects, visual artists, cultural historians, and sociologists, as well as for supporters of all forms of participatory democracy.