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- Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting.
- Author(s): Andrew Atwood
- 256 Pages
- Architecture, Criticism
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Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms: boring, confusing, and comforting. Along with interesting, these three terms make up the four chapters of the book. Each chapter introduces its topic through an analysis of a different image, which serves to unpack the specific character of each term and its relationship to architecture. In addition to text, the book contains over 50 case studies using 100 drawings and images. These are presented in parallel to the text and show what architecture may look like through the lens of these other terms.Review Quotes
"Atwood expands the critical terrain of the interesting by planting it alongside its logical complements: the not interesting, the boring, the confusing, the comforting. As he spells out in a particularly striking passage, this reconfiguration has its roots in the conviction that the ways in which architects decide what matters, matters: "Our instinct to turn away from those things that do not seem to warrant our attention is to concede to established systems of power in architecture and to refuse to challenge some of the aesthetic habits of critique embedded in our contemporary debates."" --Metropolis Magazine
"Welcome to the age of ADD Architecture. As author Andrew Atwood himself admits in his both brilliant and (purposefully) confusing Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2018), he may have had attention deficit disorder as a child. (Apparently his parents disagreed.) That diagnosis might account for his fox-like interest in many things and interpretations, as well as his lack of desire to build a single argument. His achievement in this volume is to flip that lack of focus into a virtue, arguing for the "not interesting" approach to architecture of the title. Note, and bear with the author and me here, that what he is not interested in are buildings that are not interesting. He wonders instead whether we might be able to interpret our built environment from a different set of perspectives." --Aaron Betsky, Architect, The Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Criticism
Genre: Architecture
Number of Pages: 256
Publisher: Applied Research & Design
Format: Paperback
Author: Andrew Atwood
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2018
TCIN: 1002951440
UPC: 9781940743530
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-8678
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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