Architecture of the Everyday

by Steven Harris (Editor), Deborah Berke (Editor)

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic fads. Architecture of the Everyday makes a plea for an architecture that is emphatically un-monumental, anti-heroic, and unconcerned with formal extravagance.Edited by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris, this collection of writings, photo-essays, and projects describes an architecture that draws strength from its simplicity, use of common materials, and relationship to other fields of study. Topics range from a website that explores the politics of domesticity, to a transformation of the sidewalk in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, to a discussion of the work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Contributors include Margaret Crawford, Peggy Deamer, Deborah Fausch, Ben Gianni and Mark Robbins, Joan Ockman, Ernest Pascucci, Alan Plattus, and Mary-Ann Ray.

Genres: Architecture, Reference

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

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Reviews

[Tito Quiling, Jr.]

Enjoyed reading this one. Though some chapters were overshadowed by the renderings and visual references and the layout could be more streamlined. But the contents on private and public housing, natural spaces, and everyday rhythms are compelling to read through, as it makes us think how we dwell is affected by our movements, and our rituals and practices inject character in our spaces.

[Jeff Eisenberg]

Good overview of some interesting artists and thinkers