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Within architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture's knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we "can know but cannot tell", often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of research. Beginning in the studio, where students are guided into becoming architects, the book follows a path through the tacit knowledge present in models, materials, conceptual structures, and the design process, revealing how the tacit dimension leads to craftsmanship and the situated knowledge of architecture-in-the-world. Awareness of the tacit dimension helps to understand the many facets of the spaces we inhabit, from the ideas of the architect to the more hidden assumptions of our cultures.

ARCHITECTURE / Criticism --- Research --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Architecture --- Philosophy. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology

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"Exhibitions have long played a crucial role in defining disciplinary histories. This volume examines the impact of eleven groundbreaking architecture and design exhibitions held between 1956 and 2006, revealing the different ways they have shaped how these disciplines are understood and practiced today. Featuring written and photographic descriptions of the shows and essays from noted curators, scholars, critics, designers, and artists, As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History explores the multifaceted ways in which exhibitions have reflected on contemporary dilemmas and opened up new processes and ways of working. Providing a fresh perspective on some of the most important exhibitions of the 20th century from America, Europe, and Japan, including This Is Tomorrow, Expo '70, and Massive Change, this book offers a new framework for thinking about how exhibitions can function as a transformative force in the field of architecture and design"--

Architecture --- Design --- Architecture and society --- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. --- ART / Museum Studies. --- ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching. --- Exhibitions --- History --- Social aspects --- designs [artistic concepts] --- Museology --- architecture [discipline] --- exhibitions [events]

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Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. "Byte" is a unit of digital information used in information technology and most commonly consists of eight bits. Reality Bytes is also the title of an essay by Bart Lootsma, in which he investigates the relationship between society and architects and town planners. Bart Lootsma, Professor of Architecture as well as architectural historian, critic and curator, is one of the most multi-faceted figures amongst contemporary architectural theorists. He has produced numerous publications, including "Superdutch", an appraisal of contemporary architecture in the Netherlands published in 2000. In Reality Bytes he has now for the first time compiled hitherto (mostly) unpublished texts on architectural theory, on Second Modernism, on populism and architecture, on landscape architecture and on the changing role of architects in society.

Architectural design --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture --- Data processing. --- History --- Gesellschaft. --- Landschaftsarchitektur. --- Moderne. --- Modernism, postmodernism, urban construction, landscape architecture, society. --- Postmoderne. --- Städtebau. --- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. --- 1900-1999

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In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture -the first of its kind- Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms -the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials- Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, this book presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged - even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.

Architecture --- Abstraction. --- ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) --- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism --- ARCHITECTURE / History / General --- Philosophy. --- Ecrit d'architecte --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Abstraction

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"From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways"--

Functionalism (Architecture) --- Architecture and society --- Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) --- Architecture et société --- History. --- Histoire --- ARCHITECTURE / General. --- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. --- ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation. --- 331.101.1 --- Participatie --- 72.036 --- Functionalism in architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- Rationalism (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Ergonomie --- Functionalisme (architectuur) --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Functionalism (Architecture). --- Architecture et société --- Conception architecturale --- Participation de l'usager --- Design --- History --- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism --- ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation --- ARCHITECTURE / General --- Architecture and society - History