false 622929 0 0 5074994 0262012537 9780262012539 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5074994.Architecture_Depends 4.50 2 "Less is more."
—Mies van de Rohe

"Less is a bore."
—Robert Venturi

"Mess is the law."
—Jeremy Till

Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.

The everyday world is a disordered mess, from which architecture has retreated—and this retreat, says Till, is deluded. Architecture must engage with the inescapable reality of the world; in that engagement is the potential for a reformulation of architectural practice. Contingency should be understood as an opportunity rather than a threat. Elvis Costello said that his songs have to work when played through the cheapest transistor radio; for Till, architecture has to work (socially, spatially) by coping with the flux and vagaries of everyday life. Architecture, he proposes, must move from a reliance on the impulsive imagination of the lone genius to a confidence in the collaborative ethical imagination, from clinging to notions of total control to an intentional acceptance of letting go.]]> 622929 4.33 3 1 2009 1299417 0203588223 9780203588222 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1299417.Architecture_And_Participation 4.00 1
The contributors include both practitioners and theorists who provide both background theoretical approaches to the subject as well as concrete outcomes. The book will be useful to both students and practitioners as well as policy makers in the field.]]> 622929 4.33 3 1 2004 1536435 0863555748 9780863555749 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1536435.Echo_city 0.0 0 622929 4.33 3 1 673188 0.0 0 0 2007 5054896 0750682027 9780750682022 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5054896.Flexible_Housing 0.0 0
Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illustrations and diagrams provide fascinating detail and allow direct visual comparisons to be made. Combining history, theory and design the book explains the social and economic benefits that can be achieved and shows the various ways it has been and can be delivered. The book ends with an accessible guide to how flexible housing might be designed and constructed today to achieve adaptable and ultimately sustainable buildings.

Housing designers, housing managers and students of architecture, construction and housing will find this book of immense value both as a comprehensive reference and design manual.

* Assesses the needs for housing to adapt to the changing needs of society and individuals
* 80 fully illustrated case studies
* Design manual for how to achieve genuinely flexible housing]]> 622929 4.33 3 1 2007 5074995 0471984248 9780471984245 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5074995.The_Everyday_and_Architecture 0.0 0
Architectural criticism and inquiry traditionally focuses on the monumental, but this refreshing book focuses on the often overlooked subject of ordinary structures and how we live in and use them. Features essays and projects by Rem Koulhaas, Gunter Beknish, Michael Marriott, and Ben Kelly, among others.

Sarah Wigglesworth (London, England) is principal of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and senior lecturer at Kingston University. Jeremy Till (London, England) is senior lecturer and sub-dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University College London. Both authors were Fulbright Fellows in 1991.]]> 707954 0.0 0 0 622929 4.33 3 1 1998 5074996 0954136209 9780954136208 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5074996.9_10_Stock_Orchard_Street_A_Guide_Book 0.0 0 707954 0.0 0 0 622929 4.33 3 1 2001