Rakatansky, Mark, <br/><br/>
Tectonic acts of desire and doubt / 
Mark Rakatansk ; series editor Brett Steele ; AA managing editor Thomas Weaver ; AA publications editor Pamela Johnston ; AA art director Zak Kyes ; design Wayne Daly. 
 - 287 pages :  illustrations, photographs, plans ;  19 cm. 
 - Architecture Words ;   9. .
 - Architecture Words ;  9. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-283)  and index (285-287).  
<br/><br/> This collection of a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and writer Mark Rakatansky proposes an innovative framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and culture space.<br/><br/>Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections: Tectonic, Acts of, Desire and Doubt. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects in a writerly voice that varies from the third-person narrative of the scholarly essays to the transcript of an email exchange with fellow academic Sarah Whiting discussing recent books by architect Greg Lynn. Transformational performances of architectural identity are explored in discussions of fabrication, social parametrics, building envelopes, spatial narratives, animation, migrancy, and in illuminating readings into the works of Louis Kahn, Robin Evans, John Coltrane, Giulio Romano and Andrea Palladio.<br/><br/>"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.--backover.   https://www.abebooks.com/9781907896156/Tectonic-Acts-Desire-Doubt-Architectural-1907896155/plp 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781907896156 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture<br/>Architecture--Philosophy<br/>Architectural criticism
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2599.5  / .R34 2012