a legacy of latitude Wilkins, Gretchen text Oxford John Wiley & Sons 2023 monographic eng

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136p.: ill; 27cm. Cover -- Introduction: Hive of Education Reflections on a Model of Architectural Education -- Building a Campus for Self-education -- Architecture for Education -- Navigating Latitude -- Cultures of Work Notes Evolution Over Revolution: Eliel Saarinen as Architect and Educator Creating the Cranbrook Institutions -- First Cranbrook Buildings -- Adapting Modern Sources -- Saarinen as Educator A Monumental Final Building Saarinen's Legacy -- Notes Provoking the Outliers: Trajectories for the Near Future Drawn from the Enigmatic Past -- Research at the Periphery -- Speculating on Ideation -- Shapeshifting Practice Note 'The Unmeasurable': Lessons from Cranbrook -- The Oval -- The Observatory -- The Water -- The Natatorium Nurturing the Creative Spirit Schooling Fishy Knowledge -- A Living Pedagogical Ecology -- Cranbrook's Imaginative Radicality -- Future Freshness -- Notes Postgraduate Architectural Education In Situ Cranbrook's Proto Context -- Studio Culture / Practice -- Experimentation as Education Unprompted: Open-ended Investigations in the Choreography of Construction -- Questions to Build On -- Elegant Interconnection Easy and Free Preserving Ambiguity -- Notes Building A Dream: Fertile Ground for Social Good -- WALKING INTO THE DREAM -- THE CRANBROOK DREAMERS MAKING MY OWN DREAMLAND Notes Unbuilding and the Recovery of Craft in Architecture: Cranbrook Department of Architecture 1986-1996 -- The Critical Environment -- Beginning Work -- Design-Build: The Cranbrook Architecture Office Responsive Tectonics Reflection Notes An Architecture of Marks: Reading Histories and Writing Futures -- Opening Spaces of Representation -- Opening Spaces of Enquiry -- Opening Spaces of Rehearsal -- Marked by the Cranbrook Architecture Studio Notes Methods of Inspiration: A Pedagogical Approach Based on Singularity -- Saarinen's Legacy -- The Role of Inspiration in the Design Process -- Introductory Problems -- Seminars, Guest Lectures and Symposia Contexts and Collaborators Within Detroit Notes The Interior Within Hand's Reach: Tactile Proximity -- Pinching the Interior -- Casting Hollows and Solids guest-edited by Gretchen Wilkins. Architecture Study and teaching (Higher) Cranbrook Academy of Art Department of Architecture Influence History 720.711774 9781119834427 240605 20240610114125.0