Judging Architectural Value : A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Preface vii William S. Saunders Introduction ix Michael Benedikt 1. Learning from St. Louis: The Arch, the Canon, and Bourdieu 1 H ne Lipstadt 2. What Goes Unnoticed: On the Canonical Quality of the PSFS Building 24 David Leatherbarrow 3. Canon and Anti-Canon: On the Fall and Rise of the A + A 38 Timothy M. Rohan 4. Canons in Cross Fire: On the Importance of Critical Modernism 52 Charles Jencks 5. In the Shadow of a Giant: On the Consequences of Canonization 66 Daniel Willis 6. Eyesore or Art? On Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project 87 John Beardsley 7. Toward an Architecture of Humility: On the Value of Experience 96 Juhani Pallasmaa 8. Why Are Some Buildings More Interesting Than Others? 104 Kurt W. Forster 9. Questions of Value: An Interview with Kenneth Frampton 116 William S. Saunders and Nancy Levinson 10. Most Architecture Should Be Modest: On Architecture and Aesthetic Judgment 124 Roger Scruton 11. From Taste to Judgment: Multiple Criteria in the Evaluation of Architecture 129 William S. Saunders 12. Once Again by the Pacific: Returning to Sea Ranch 150 Tim Culvahouse and Lisa Findley 13. The Absence of Presence: The Knickerbocker Residence and the Fate of Nonelitist Architecture 165 Diane Ghirardo Contributors 173