The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 External Criteria for Architectural Judgment: Architectural judgment based on history, part 1; Architectural judgment based on history, part 2; Architectural judgment based on history, part 3; On the nature of modernity; Political content and architectural form; Desire, imitation, and conflict. Part 2 Internal Criteria for Architectural Judgment. The Faces of Character: Architectural expression: form, quality and purpose; Character, imitation and invention: a discussion of three historic moments; The limits of architectural expression; Conclusion: the usefulness of conflict for judgment; Bibliography; Index.