Architecture of the Everyday

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic fads. Architecture of the Everyday makes a plea for an architecture that is emphatically un-monumental anti-heroic and unconcerned with formal extravagance. Edited by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris this collection of writings photo-essays and projects describes an architecture that draws strength from its simplicity use of common materials and relationship to other fields of study. Topics range from a website that explores the politics of domesticity to a transformation of the sidewalk in Los Angeless Little Tokyo to a discussion of the work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Contributors include Margaret Crawford Peggy Deamer Deborah Fausch Ben Gianni and Mark Robbins Joan Ockman Ernest Pascucci Alan Plattus and Mary-Ann Ray.