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A lively and unconventional appreciation of pivotal buildings by Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn that reveals enough idiosyncrasies and conceits to make any rationalist shudderand invites a deeper appreciation of the prosaic construction detail.Confronted with the intricate construction details of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa's Querini Stampalia Gallerysteel joined at odd intervals, concrete spilled out of concatenated forms, stone cut in labyrinthine patternsMichael Cadwell abandoned his attempts to categorize them theoretically and resolved instead to appreciate their idiosyncrasies and evoke their allembracing affects. What he had dismissed as a collection of fetishes he came to understand as a coherently constructed world that was nonetheless persistently strange. In Strange Details, Cadwell looks at the work of four canonical architects who 'made strange' with the most resistant aspect of architectureconstruction. In buildings that were pivotal in their careers, Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn all created details that undercut our critical and analytical terra firma.Cadwell explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies's Farnsworth House, and the reinforced concrete of Kahn's Yale Center for British Art. Each of these architects, he finds, reconfigures the rudimentary facts of construction, creating a subtle but undeniable shift in a building's physicality. And for each of them, nature is strange, and its strangeness infects; nature unmoors exhausted cultural ideas, constricted analytical procedures, and outmoded production techniques. An awakening to nature's strangeness forces a new sense of the world, one that we can detect in these architects' configurations of the world's materialstheir strange details.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What is the main focus of 'Strange Details: Writing Architecture'? A: The book primarily explores the unconventional aspects of architectural construction through the works of notable architects such as Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn.
- Q: Who is the author of this book? A: The author of 'Strange Details: Writing Architecture' is Michael Cadwell.
- Q: How many pages does 'Strange Details: Writing Architecture' have? A: The book contains 183 pages.
- Q: What is the condition of the book listed? A: The book is listed in 'Good' condition.
- Q: What type of binding does this book have? A: The book is available in paperback binding.
- Q: When was 'Strange Details: Writing Architecture' published? A: The book was published on January 1, 2007.
- Q: What category does this book fall under? A: The book is categorized under 'History'.
- Q: What themes are explored in the book? A: The book examines the idiosyncrasies of construction details and how these details contribute to a deeper understanding of architectural works.
- Q: Is there any information about the features or materials used in the book? A: The product details do not specify any features or materials related to the book.
- Q: Can I find insights on specific architects in the book? A: Yes, the book provides insights into the works of Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn.