Crucial Words : : Conditions for Contemporary Architecture / / ed. by Gert Wingårdh, Rasmus Wærn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Nicholas,; Almaas, Ingerid Helsing,; Bergquist, Mikael,; Brayer, Marie-Ange,; Brown, Denise Scott,; Edblad, Jonas,; Fuksas, Elisa,; Fuksas, Massimiliano,; Gabrielsson, Catharina,; Ibelings, Hans,; Jaeger, Falk,; Jones, Peter Blundell,; Lampugnani, Vittorio Magnago,; Lantz, Maria,; Linton, Johan,; Lund, Nils-Ole,; Nilsson, Fredrik,; Obrist, Hans Ulrich,; Pallasmaa, Juhani,; Palmer, Henrietta,; Pamuk, Orhan,; Rykwert, Joseph,; Rückauer, Jaime Salazar,; Scalbert, Irénée,; Schäfer, Robert,; Sowa, Axel,; Sörlin, Sverker,; Thau, Carsten,; Treib, Marc,; Wang, Wilfried,; Ward, Janet,
• HerausgeberIn: Wingårdh, Gert,; Wærn, Rasmus,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden’s most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• Crucial words
• Architects
• Atmosphere
• Body
• City Branding
• Competitions
• Computer
• Concept
• Corporate
• Desire
• Doers
• Europe
• Everyday
• Experiment
• Formalism
• Future
• Globalization
• Humanism
• Landscape
• Memory
• Modernity
• Nature
• Nordic
• Organic
• Ornament
• Photography
• Slit
• Technology
• Tradition
• Transformation
• Wheelchair
• Why
• The authors
• The editors
• Art and photography
• Contents