{"product_id":"exquisite-corpse-writings-on-buildings-9780860913238","title":"Exquisite Corpse: Writings on Buildings","description":"\u003cp\u003eExquisite Corpse was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper  folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until  finally  the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book  Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are similarly assembled by many players acting with varying autonomy in a complicit framework. An unfolding terrain of invention  the city is also a means of accommodating disparity  of contextualizing sometimes startling juxtapositions.  Sorkins aim is to widen the debate about the creation of buildings beyond the immediate issues of technology and design. He discusses the politics and culture of architecture with daring  often devastating  observations about the institutions and personalities who have dominated the profession over the past decade. Their preoccupation with the empty style of beach houses and Disneyland has consistently trivialized the full constructive scope of contemporary architectures possibilities.  Sorkins interventions range from the development scandals of New York where skyscrapers stand at the intersection between grid and greed  through the deconstructivist architectural culture of Los Angeles  to the work and ideas of architects  developers and critics such as Alvar Aalto  Norman Foster  Paul Goldberger  Michael Graves  Coop Himmelblau  Philip Johnson  Leon Krier  Frank Lloyd Wright  Richard Rogers  Carlo Scarpa  James Stirling  Donald Trump  Tom Wolfe and Lebbeus Woods. Throughout Sorkin combines stinging polemic with a powerful call for a rebirth of architecture that is visionary and experimentala recuperated dreamy science\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923559776309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0860913236","price":246.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780860913238.jpg?v=1794107660","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/exquisite-corpse-writings-on-buildings-9780860913238","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}