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Cet ouvrage offre un aperçu détaillé des desiderata et des conséquences attachées aux diverses représentations précises utilisées dans la pratique quotidienne architecturale contemporaine à travers des études de détails architecturaux construits par Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe et OMA. Des médias précis – dessins, spécifications, lettres, télécopies et courriels – sont chargés de la tâche complexe de traduire l’intention architecturale dans un langage neutre et quantifiable qui est censé garantir une correspondance exacte entre les intentions des architectes et le résultat construit. Cependant, comme tout architecte le sait, il est douteux que la construction d’un projet architectural puisse jamais correspondre exactement à toutes les prédictions écrites et dessinées. Ce livre remet en question les certitudes qui s'attachent à ces représentations à partir du milieu du 19e siècle, et critique les attentes actuelles. This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA. In the professionalised context of the contemporary architectural profession, precise communications - drawings, specifications, letters, faxes and emails - are charged with the complex task of translating architectural intent into a neutral and quantifiable language which is expected to guarantee an exact match between the architects' intentions and the constructed result. Yet, as any architectural practitioner will know, it is doubtful whether the construction of any architectural project may ever exactly match all written and drawn predictions. This book challenges claims to certainty which have been attributed to such communications from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and critiques ongoing expectations of certainty in contemporary architectural production.

Communication in architectural design --- Architectural practice --- Building --- Architect and client --- Architectural services --- Architecture --- Architectural design --- Quality control --- Practice --- Vocational guidance --- Pratique architecturale --- Structure métallique --- Analyse de l'architecture --- Musée --- Communication --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Processus de conception --- Technique de représentation --- Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig, --- Lewerentz, Sigurd --- OMA --- Caruso st john architects --- Crystal Palace (Londres) --- Building - Quality control --- Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple Store in New York City, to the street markets of the Pan American Highway; from commercial Dubai to the public schools of Australia, this book takes a critical look at contemporary architecture from across the globe, whilst extending its range back in history as far as the Homeric epics of ancient Greece. The book addresses the challenges of practicing architecture within the strictures of contemporary economies, grounded on the fundamental definition of ‘economy’ as the well managed household – derived from the Greek oikonomia – oikos (house) and nemein (manage). The diverse enquiries of the study are structured around the following key questions: - How do we define our economies? - How are the values of architecture negotiated among the various actors involved? - How do we manage the production of a good architecture within any particular system? - How does political economy frame and influence architecture? The majority of examples are taken from current or recent architectural practice; historical examples, which include John Evelyn’s villa, Blenheim Palace, John Ruskin’s Venice, and early twentieth century Paris, place the debates within an extended critical perspective.

Architecture and society. --- Architecture --- Architecture et société --- Economic aspects. --- Aspect économique --- Architecture and society --- Economic aspects