The emerald city and other essays on the architectural imagination /

Willis, Daniel, 1957-

The emerald city and other essays on the architectural imagination / Daniel Willis. - xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Heavy, not dead -- Architecture as medicine -- The valor of iron : an introduction to the material imagination -- The weight of architecture -- The emerald city : a study of substance and place -- Active architecture from Christo to Christmas trees -- Vernacular architecture and the economics of dwelling -- Gendered words, neutered spaces, and the trouble with new urbanism -- The contradictions underlying the profession of architecture -- Seven strategies for making architecture in the twenty-first century -- The work of architecture in the age of efficient production -- The impact of the computer on architectural practice. Robert Harbison -- Introduction:



1568981740 9781568981741

98048641


Architecture and society
Architecture--Philosophy

NA2543.S6 / W525 1999

720.1

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