1994
This vast and comprehensive volume of work on the world's most renowned architects was called “a once in a lifetime project”. It took eight years of preparation. Faced with the increased invisibility of the architectural discourse itself as media attention focused increasingly on the visual aspects of architecture, this book sought to restore the balance between social and artistic choices and their consequences.
The Invisible in Architecture provides a rigorous survey of the fundamental cultural tropes in present-day architecture and highlights the versatility of the discipline, avoiding a one-sided emphasis on technique and design at the expense of the intellectual and tactile dimensions. Architecture and its cultural context are presented as completely interwoven, without losing sight of the architectural specificity. The book is co-authored by Roemer van Toorn.
Essays
Interviews
Dutch Minister of Culture Hedy d' Ancona
Ole Bouman, Roemer van Toorn
Le Style, c'est l'Homme
On 'The Invisible in Architecture': An Environment-Behviour Studies Perpective
Classical Architecture is no Saviour
Architecture for King Client
The Need for a Space as a Global Problem: A Manifesta
A Modern View, or a View on the Modern
Visions' Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media
Between Omnipotence and Aluminosis
In Search of Ground
Ecology: the Invisible Factor
Desperately Seeking Siza
Myth and the Fate of Secularisation
Architecture, Development, Memory
Ryebread Architecture
Our Culture is in Need of an Art of Exposure
Tomorrow Can Take Care of Itself
The Reason Why I Laugh or: The Topsy-Turvydom of Post Modern Architectural Ethics
Interpretation, Mediation, Narrative in Architecture
Afterthoughts on Architectural Cynicism
Architecture is too Important to Leave to the Architects
The Invisible Political Economy of Architectural Production
In the Place of the Public: Observations of a Traveller
Architecture of Evocation of Concealed Time
Architecture at Remdom: The Blinkers that Make the Visionary
Ole Bouman, Roemer van Toorn
Pictorials
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