"Focusing on contemporary built starchitecture as a neglected vehicle of architectural theory, this chapter looks into the "routes of knowledge" expressed by built form in conversation with the textual search of disciplinary autonomy of the 1960s-1990s period, which has arguably shape...

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1. Verfasser:	Allweil, Yael (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2021
Schlagworte:	Gehry, Frank O. > 1929- Geschichte 2007-2009 Architektur Architekturtheorie Wohnungsbau Forschungsgebäude Las Vegas, Nev.
Zusammenfassung:	"Focusing on contemporary built starchitecture as a neglected vehicle of architectural theory, this chapter looks into the "routes of knowledge" expressed by built form in conversation with the textual search of disciplinary autonomy of the 1960s-1990s period, which has arguably shaped it. Theorizing the global housing crisis as architectural crisis, this chapter looks at a fascinating, provocative reconsideration of housing as premise for theorization and critique of the present moment, proposed by Frank Gehry’s 2010 Lou Ruvo Brain Health Center in Las Vegas. This starchitecture is examined here as a theoretical piece responding to key theoretical texts that have transformed architectural knowledge: Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour’s "Learning from Las Vegas", the spectacle demolition of Pruitt-Igoe as pretext for Jencks’ "Language of Post-Modern Architecture", Rowe’s "Five Architects", and Oppositions Journal. Reading the building’s tectonics as direct engagement with the history of architectural theory re-examines the historiography of housing theory and points to Gehry’s building as a theoretical provocation contemplating a post-capitalist architecture."
Beschreibung:	Illustrationen, Pläne
ISBN:	978-1-3501-5317-2