The Portfolio and the Diagram is about the changing ways architects see; read; and use the words and images of architectural publications. Architects today do not use the glossy photographs of magazines in the same way that nineteenth-century architects mobilized the drawings in the grand folios. The images have changed; and so have the ways in which they are used.The book begins with an outline of the academic discipline and the mimetic practice of the portfolio; established in America during the late nineteenth century. World War I triggered a historical process that resulted in the demise of the portfolio and the emergence of the discourse of the diagram. The Beaux Arts-trained architects had fashioned their discipline through the meticulous object-centered images of the portfolio. The discourse of the diagram provided a new range of possibility in the architects relation to words; images; and buildings. More than the diagram itself; more than the province of narrow-minded functionalists; the discourse of the diagram is a complex formation of texts; concepts; and modes of representation.Concerned less with constructing a new kind of modernism than with understanding the boundaries and structures of modernity; the book is a history of modern architecture as a discursive practice and its striving to become a viable discipline.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Philosophy of Art explained by major philosophers.By Ann F. RappPurchased as a required textbook; and was extremely helpful in my Philosophy of Art class. Recommended for anyone interested in art and the philosophy of art. It covers the major philosophers and their interesting views of what art actually is and what it does.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is a tremendous book with a great variety of extracts from famous writersBy Helen Keenan-DunneThis is a tremendous book with a great variety of extracts from famous writers; I like the separate sections for art criticism and the art world.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Jose M. GomezI just got it in the mail and am happy to start reading it. Thanks!
