Critical Architecture

Jane Rendell

Routledge, 2007 - Architecture - 348 pages

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts.

With forty essays by an international cast of leading architectural academics, this accessible single source text on the topical subject of architectural criticism is ideal for undergraduate as well as post graduate study.

About the author

Jane Rendell is Professor of Architecture and Art and Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory and Director of the MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster in London.

Mark Dorrian is Reader in Architecture at the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh and co-director of Metis.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Critical Architecture; Volume 1 of Critiques (Architectural Humanities Research Association); Volume 1 of Critiques: critical studies in architectural humanities
• Editor: Jane Rendell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2007
• ISBN: 0415415373, 9780415415378
• Length: 348 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Criticism; Architecture / Reference