Architecture Constructed

Notes on a Discipline

Mark Jarzombek (Author)

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Architecture Constructed

Notes on a Discipline

Mark Jarzombek (Author)

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Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persisting through Classical and Renaissance times to the present day, and yet it has rarely been addressed through a historical and theoretical lens.

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature of the history of architecture. He reveals architecture to be a troubled, interconnected realm, incomplete and unstable, where labor, craft, and occupation are the 'invisible' complements to the work of the architect.

Erudite, entertaining, and full of surprising and thought-provoking juxtapositions and challenges, Architecture Constructed is packed with novel insights into the internal conflicts and paradoxes of architecture, and is rich with examples from modern and contemporary practice-including Mies, Koolhaas, Potrc, Hadid, Bawa, Diller + Scofidio-which demonstrate how contemporary architecture inhabits the very same tensions that have riven the discipline since the days of Alberti.

This provocative book will stimulate conversations among students, researchers, and designers, as it pushes the boundaries on how we define the professional discipline of architecture and overturns entrenched assumptions about the nature of architectural history and theory.

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Part 1
1: Preface
2: Arche-Tekton
3: Shell Games

Part 2
1: Befores and Afters
2: Dialectics of (In)Completion
3: Post-Teleology

Part 3
1: The Curse of Socrates
2: Occupationality
3: Faber Ingenium

Part 4
1: 'Architecture'
2: Anamorphic Realism

Part 5
1: Arche-Soci(arche)ology
2: Arche-2
3: Laugier's Haunts

Part 6
1: Tekton-Topia

Part 7
1: Master-Builder
2: Tekton Libidinalism
3: 'Construction'

De-Positioning

Postscript
List of Credits

Index

Product details

Published	06 Apr 2023
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	376
ISBN	9781350326132
Imprint	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations	201 color illus
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Mark Jarzombek

Mark Jarzombek is an architectural historian, auth…

This book is in itself a new cartography of the discipline, drawing attention to all those people who have embodied the toil of building, that daily habit of mankind that we variously call architecture.

Khorein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy
Aphoristic, erudite, humorous, and extraordinarily capacious, Architecture Constructed deftly explores the thinker/maker opposition, the way it has played out in architecture, and the complex effects to which it has given rise. This is a consistently provocative and thought-provoking text – opinionated, challenging, and argued with bravado.

Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh, UK
Brilliantly written, Architecture Constructed uncovers blind spots in the very construction of architecture theory. In so doing, Jarzombek performs a Derridean deconstruction of long-established disciplinary concepts and manages, while constructing a grammatology of the discipline itself, to perform a 'Derrida' on Jacques Derrida himself.

Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich, Switzerland