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    PSYOP. An Anthology

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    The Object of Zionism. The Architecture of Israel

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    Concrete Poetry. Post-War Modernist Public Art

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    Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990

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    Nicole Eisenman: Conscious Razing

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    Victor Papanek. The Politics of Design

  • Merve Emre (Ed.)

    Once and Future Feminist

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    Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks

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  • Lydia Kallipoliti

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  • John Byrne

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    Last Days of Disco

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    Strategien gegen Gentrifizierung

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A Real Living Contact with the Thing Themselves

Die moderne Architekturkritik legt ihr Augenmerk häufig vor allem auf die Theorien und Konzepte hinter den Gebäuden. Dabei gibt es so viel zu erfahren, wenn man die Welt des geschriebenen Wortes verlässt und sich mit den realen Bauwerken auseinandersetzt – den «Dingen an sich». Das Verlangen nach «realer, lebendiger Greifbarkeit» bildet den roten Faden dieser zum Nachdenken anregenden Sammlung von Essays des weltbekannten britischen Architekturkritikers Irénée Scalbert.
Die neun Essays in «A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves» erstrecken sich über den gesamten Verlauf von Scalberts Karriere, von den frühen 1990er-Jahren bis heute. Oft sind es detailreiche Studien bekannter Gebäude – sowohl Kritiken neu realisierter Projekte wie auch Kommentare zu bereits bestehenden Bauwerken, die so wieder in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt wurden. Andere Texte sind weiter gefasst und ergründen historische Strömungen und Konzepte im Hinblick auf deren Relevanz für die zeitgenössische Architektur. Gemein ist ihnen Scalberts prägnante, treffende Kritik, die – gepaart mit zahlreichen Illustrationen – dieses Buch zu einer spannenden Lektüre für Architekturinteressierte macht.
Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real buildings—the things themselves. This urge for “real living contact” is the impetus behind this new and exhilarating collection of essays by renowned British architectural critic and scholar Irénée Scalbert.
A Real Living Contact with theThings Themselves selects nine essays written throughout the Scalbert’s career from the early 1990s to the present. Four of the essays are detailed studies of major buildings, including both critiques written at the time the buildings were made and comments on extant buildings that contributed to their rediscovery. Other pieces represent broader studies of historical movements and ideas, interpreting their significance within the context of contemporary architecture. All of the essays are based on direct experience, whether through quiet contemplation or candid interviews with architects, builders, or inhabitants. An architect by training, Scalbert writes with the purpose of illuminating the design efforts made and enriching the form of the architectures he describes, and his essays thus contribute to many key moments in the architectural history of the past three decades.
Scalbert’s incisive and boldly original criticism—together with a wealth of illustrations—make this a book an enlightening read for architects and architectural students or anyone with an appreciation of this important voice in architectural criticism.


Irenee Scalbert
A Real Living Contact with the Thing Themselves
Park Books, 2018, 978-3-03860-111-1