著者・編者Paul Preissner ; essays by Jayne Kelley, Alex Lehnerer, Walter Benn Michaels, Li Tavor ; edited by Courtney Coffman ; text drawings by Tim Kinsella
並列タイトル等Canonical work and other visible things meant to be viewed as architecture
一般注記Content Type: text (rdacontent), still image (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Graphic design by Joe Gilmore; typeface, favorit by Dinamo
Being boring (or boringness) has been one of the qualities of architecture an architect desperately tries to avoid. Not to provoke (or at least try to provoke) some reaction from one's audience is to admit to a lack of ideas or an absence of creativity. In Kind of Boring, Paul Preissner rejects the idea that architecture should demand anything from its audience. The "boring and dumb" architecture documented in this book leaves us alone. In this way, the work of Paul Preissner Architects produces a conceptual space, a meaning independent of our relationship to the work; we can only understand (or misunderstand) it. Kind of Boring looks at the origin of architectural ideas behind a work and the theoretical and practical consequences resulting from an architecture that prioritizes class politics through experimentation with formal practice. The book presents an alternative to contemporary architecture through a kind of work which embraces normalcy, and weird deviations from such, making a kind of architecture wh
連携機関・データベース国立情報学研究所 : CiNii Research
NACSIS書誌ID（NCID）https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BC16945845 : BC16945845