Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise
architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing
number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the
ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced
architecture to a series of stylistic fads.
Architecture
of the Everyday makes a plea for an architecture that is
emphatically un-monumental, anti-heroic, and unconcerned with formal
extravagance.
Edited by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris, this collection of writings,
photo-essays, and projects describes an architecture that draws
strength
from its simplicity, use of common materials, and relationship to other
fields of study. Topics range from a website that explores the politics
of domesticity, to a transformation of the sidewalk in Los Angeles’s
Little Tokyo, to a discussion of the work of Robert Venturi and Denise
Scott Brown. Contributors include Margaret Crawford, Peggy Deamer,
Deborah Fausch, Ben Gianni and Mark Robbins, Joan Ockman, Ernest
Pascucci, Alan Plattus, and Mary-Ann Ray.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (March 24, 1998)
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1568981147
ISBN-13: 978-1568981147
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.7 x 8.8 inches