Conversations with Architects about a Troubled Relationship
Beauty in architecture matters again. This issue of AD posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift fro...
Architects have inherited from modernism an unshakable suspicion of the notion of beauty. Reisner is right to tackle the issue. (Financial Times, November 2010).
YAEL REISNER has a Diploma in Architecture from the Architectural Association in London. Before turning to architecture, she completed a BSc in Biology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Born in Tel Aviv, she now lives in London where she has her own practice. Having taught for nine years at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), she currently teaches internationally while completing a PhD at RMIT in Australia on the theme of emotional beauty and experience in contemporary architecture. She is also curating two parallel exhibitions on the work of Gaetano Pesce for the Design Museum and the Aram Gallery in London. FLEUR WATSON is a design journalist, curator and former Editor-in-Chief of the Australian architecture journal MONUMENT (2001-7). She has a Bachelor in Design from Curtin University, an Associate Degree in Journalism and a Masters of Arts in Curating Contemporary Design from London s Design Museum and Kingston University. Fleur is Director of something together, a multi-disciplinary studio that presents architecture through events and exhibitions, and is the Managing Curator for the Cultural Program of Melbourne's State of Design Festival.
Dedication. Acknowledgements. Genesis of a Troubled Relationship. Frank O Gehry. Zvi Hecker. Peter Cook. Juhani Pallasmaa. Lebbeus Woods. Gaetano Pesce. Wolf D Prix. Thom Mayne. Eric Owen Moss. Will Aslop. Zaha Hadid. Odile Decq. Mark Goulthorpe. Greg Lynn. Kol/Mac. Hernan Diaz Alonso. Suggested Reading. Index. Picture Credits.