The Humanities in Architectural Design : A Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Paperback)

Introduction Part 1: Freedom in the Shadow of Uncertainty 1. The Responsibility of Design Karsten Harries 2. Inhumanities: Ethics in Architectural Praxis Leonidas Koutsoumpos 3. Cultivating Architects: The Humanities in Architectural Education Alexandra Stara 4. The Architect as Humanist Leslie Kavanaugh 5. Migration, Emancipation and Architecture James McQuillan Part 2: Spectre of Technology 6. Fantasies of the End of Technology Jonathan Sawday 7. Le Corbusier and the Modern Modality of Representation Andrzej Piotrowski 8. Humanist Machines: Daniel Libeskind’s "Three Lessons of Architecture" Ersi Ioannidou 9. Draw Like a Builder: Build Like a Writer Alex Graef 10. The Word Made Flesh: In the Name of the Surveyor, the Nomad, and the Lunatic Peter Waldman Part 3: Measures of Awareness 11. Creative Inspirations or Intellectual Impasses? Nader El-Bizri 12. Leon Battista Alberti and Lineamentis Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou 13. Renaissance Visual Thinking: Architectural Representation as a Medium of True Form Federica Goffi-Hamilton 14. Neoplatonism at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome John Hendrix 15. Who’s on First? Donald Kunze Part 4: The Challenges of Instrumental Knowledge 16. Architcture as a Humanistic Discipline Dalibor Vesely 17. Communicating Vessels: Andre Breton and his Atelier in Paris Dagmar Motycka Weston 18. L’histoire assassinee: Manfredo Tafuri Teresa Stoppani 19. Nature Choreographed Anne-Louise Sommer 20. Birth of Modernity out of the Spirit of Music Ole W. Fischer