Invisible in Architecture1994

This vast and comprehensive volume of work on and by the world's finest and most representative architects and essayists is unparalleled in its field. Faced with the increased invisibility of the architectonic discourse itself, as media attention focuses more on the visual aspects of architecture, this book restores the balance between social and artistic choices and their consequences.

The Invisible in Architecture provides a rigorous survey of the principal trends in present-day architecture and highlights the versatility of the discipline, avoiding a one-sided emphasis on technique and design at the expense of the intellectual and tactile dimensions. Architecture and its cultural context are presented as completely interwoven, without losing sight of the professional...