Architects & Mimetic Rivalry - Hardcover

Rene Girard, Leon Krier, Samir Younes, Kent Bloomer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906506337 ISBN 13: 9781906506339

Publisher: Papadakis, 2012

Synopsis

Rare Book

About this title

Review:

Any group of essays by the likes of Krier, Bloomer, Girard and Younés holds real promise... The discussions herein about mimetic rivalry are a a kind of kindergarten chat if you will, among clear-headed people who find themselves at a time of architectural confusion in a virtual forest of brambles from which they seek a way out, to cleared ground, where appropriate criteria for evaluation can be restored. --Jaquelin T. Robertson

This unpretentious book of essays blows up the grandiose pretense that architecture can only be performed by supernatural genius-wizards trafficking in self-referential occult metaphysics. It is a compass pointing the direction out of the dark forest of cultural narcissism where so many lost souls wander. --James Howard Kunstler, author of Too Much Magic

About the Author:

Architect and urbanist Leon Krier has taught at the Architectural Association, the Royal College of Arts, the University of Virginia, and Princeton and Yale Universities and has been an architectural consultant to the Prince of Wales since 1988. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture and Jefferson Memorial Gold Medal. He is the author of the award-winning "Architecture: Choice or Fate" and other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Papadakis
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1906506337
• ISBN 13: 9781906506339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 104
• Editor: Samir Younes