Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished
Essays presented to Robin Middleton
Edited by Barry Bergdoll
Werner Oechslin
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The ideal of wholeness and finality that we associate with the aspirations of architects in antiquity was a matter of debate from the Renaissance onward and, both deliberately and inevitably, was shattered in the modern era.
The underlying theme of this volume of essays – fragmentation in architecture since the mid-eighteenth century – has offered each of the twenty-one contributors the opportunity to explore, in individual scholarly ‘fragments’, topics that resonate with Robin Middleton’s personal and professional interests.
The range of subject matter embraces the architectural effects and philosophical implications of fragmentation, examinations of the picturesque gardens of eighteenth-century England and France, as well as of major schemes undertaken by Robert Adam and Sir John Soane, and in the twentieth century explores aspects of modernist domestic architecture by Ernö Goldfinger and the work of several masters of the poetic fragment – Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Frank Gehry.
Robin Middleton produced a steady stream of scholarly publications, including numerous articles and book reviews, which are chronicled here in a comprehensive bibliography. This book thus offers a rounded view of the wide-ranging interests and approach to scholarly pursuits of its highly respected dedicatee.
About the Editors:
Barry Bergdoll is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art History at Columbia University, New York.
Werner Oechslin is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, and Director of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Zurich.
See the List of Contributors
Also of interest:
Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture
Light, Air and Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars |
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