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Reflections on Architectural
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Among the many challenges the architecture profession faces are a constantly
volatile economic climate, rapid technological change, and a general
globalization of society. Reflections on Architectural Practice in the
Nineties presents thirty essays by leading critics, scholars, and designers
that grapple with these and other issues and provide strategies for
confronting them. Several additional perspectives are presented through
brief passages and images of built work, so that the whole forms a collage
of broad, diverse viewpoints. This timely and thought-provoking collection
grew out of a year-long symposium at the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design.
Essayists include George Baird, Max Bond, Carol Burns, Alexander Caragonne, Manuel Castells, Peter Davey, David Dillon, John Morris Dixon, Roger Ferris, Robert Fielden, Thomas Fisher, David Harvey, K. Michael Hays, Rem Koolhaas, Magali Sarfatti Larson, William Lazonick, Elizabeth Padjen, Spiro Pollalis, Rob Wellington Quigley, Bruce Robbins, Peter G. Rowe, Andrew Saint, Carl Sapers, Saskia Sassen, Mack Scogin, and Sharon Zukin.
Additional contributors include Richard Crowell, Margaret Henderson
Floyd, Peter Forbes, Robert Geddes, Charles Gwathmey, Frances Halsband,
Dan Hoffman, Stephen Kliment, A. Eugene Kohn, Andrea Leers, Eric Owen
Moss, David Rieff, Fred Stitt, Charles B. Thomsen, and Alberto Varas.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Architectural Practices in the 1990s • Peter G. Rowe
OVERVIEWS OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE AND EDUCATION
Introduction • Roger Ferris
Getting Beyond Architectural Monographs and "How-To" Management Books • Roger Ferris
Practice Realities Must Be Integrated in Design Studios • Fred Stitt
Architecture as Image: Can We Rein in this New Beast? • Andrew Saint
The Crisis of Confidence in Architects and the Public Design Review Process • John Morris Dixon
The Shaping of Architectural Practice • Elizabeth Padjen
Growing Complexities in Practice • A. Eugene Kohn
Remarks on the New Client and Market • Stephen Kliment
In Big Firms, Most Do Not Design • Stephen Kliment, Peter Forbes
Three Models for the Future of Practice
On the Need for the Collaboration of Diverse People • Frances Halsband
How Should Architects Respond to Changes in Practice? • Andrea Leers
Beaux-Arts, Bauhaus, and Regionalism: Architectural Education during the 1950s • Alexander Caragonne
A Moment in Architectural Education: The Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the 1940s • Robert Geddes
1968 and its Aftermath: The Loss of Moral Confidence in Architectural Practice and Education • George Baird
Notes on the Fate of the Architectural Profession in the Post-Structuralist Era • George Baird
Mentors Are More Important than Curriculum • Margaret Henderson Floyd
Changing Roles for Architects: Conversations from a Colloquium
Craft in Architecture and Education • Dan Hoffman
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ETHICS
Introduction • Mack Scogin
Losing and Regaining Ground: A Jeremiad on the Future of the Profession • Carl Sapers
On Virtuous Architects • Carl Sapers
On Firms that Respond to User Needs • Charles B. Thompson
Collaboration Is a Management Art • Charles B. Thompson
The Evolution of Architectural Practice: National Certification and Uniform Reciprocity • Robert Fielden
On Liability and Litigation • Richard Crowell
Poverty and Greed in American Cities • David Harvey
What Is Politically Effective Architecture Now? • David Harvey, Manuel Castells
The Erosion of Public and Personal Space • Peter Davey
Regulation versus Art: Conversations from a Colloquium
Introduction • K. Michael Hays
The Connection of the State of the Economy to What Is Taught in Architecture Schools: From Wealth, Theory; from Poverty, Practice • Frances Halsband
Patronage and Power • Magali Sarfatti Larson
Power in the Symbolic Economy • Sharon Zukin
Architectural Criticism and the Web of Practice • David Dillon
Collaborating with Minority Architects • Max Bond
Americans Belong to One Culture • Max Bond
Information Technology: A New Source of Empowerment for Architects • Spiro Pollalis
Framing the Fit • Rob Wellington Quigley
Pathetic Substitutes • Bruce Robbins
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND ARCHITECTURE
Introduction • Carol Burns
The Value-Extracting Economy: America's Response to Global Competition • William Lazonick
Los Angeles as Representative of New Global Urban Conditions • David Rieff
Globalization, Flows, and Identity: The New Challenges of Design • Manuel Castells
The New Centrality: The Impact of Telematics and Globalization • Saskia Sassen
Reasons for Agglomeration in Global Cities • Saskia Sassen
Design in an Increasingly Small World • Peter G. Rowe
Architecture and Globalization • Rem Koolhaas
Globalizing and Image Flowing: The Buenos Aires Case • Alberto Varas
IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN EDUCATION
Shaping Design Education • Peter G. Rowe
About the Contributors
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Publication Title
Reflections on Architectural Practices in the Nineties
Year Published
1996, Princeton Architectural Press
Editor(s)/Author(s)
William S. Saunders, editor
with Peter G. Rowe, Mack Scogin, K. Michael Hays, Carol Burns, Roger
Ferris