INDEX Architecture: A Columbia Architecture Book (The MIT Press)

Product Description

A cross-referenced “index” of writings, interviews, and images representative of current architectural discourse.
INDEX Architecture documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design studio has been radically altered by digital technology. Writings, interviews, and images are organized according to an alphabetical “index” of key terms. Cross-referencing allows for a rich reading of concepts currently discussed in the field.
Contributing Critics and TheoristsStan Allen, Karen Bausman, Lise Anne Couture, Kathryn Dean, Evan Douglis, Kenneth Frampton, Leslie Gill, Thomas Hanrahan, Laurie Hawkinson, Steven Holl, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sulan Kolatan, Greg Lynn, William MacDonald, Reinhold Martin, Mary Mcleod, Victoria Meyers, Hani Rashid, Jesse Reiser, Bernard Tschumi, Nanako Umemoto, and Mark Wigley

Review

Tschumi himself appears in the alphabetical sequence, and his sayings are always dynamic and serious.―
Robert Maxwell, TLS

About the Author

Bernard Tschumi is Principal of Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris. He was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture from 1988 to 2003.

Matthew Berman is an architect and a graduate of the School of Architecture at Columbia University.