![]() Launched in 1983, Blueprint was the first magazine to cross the boundaries between design and architecture. ![]() At Blueprint we cast a critical eye over the whole story'. As editor Johnny Tucker says: 'Architecture, design and art is not created and does not exist in a vacuum, but is the sum of many factors from individual and group creativity to socio-economic influences. The magazine takes a strongly contextual approach to architecture, design and art. But its long-standing appeal is also due to the strong opinions and critical thinking, news and feature writing on design and architecture, directed at professionals and non-professionals, alike. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 46(1), 83-88.Blueprint Magazine has now been bringing its readers an essential mix of critical, incisive, and entertaining architecture, design and art coverage for 30 years.īlueprint is a premium bi-monthly, 260-page magazine, 80% of which is pure editorial lovingly produced in large format on the best quality paper, with photography and illustration of the highest standard. Peripheral monuments: book review of Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology by Andreas Lechner. Lechner offers inspiring reflections, strong examples, and useful models for what may become the peripheral monuments of tomorrow." (88) ![]() In the face of the capitalist debris and the uneven space that is the hallmark of urban peripheries as a global condition, we might return to some of the 144 typologies that Lechner presents as inspiring examples or study the striking suite of projects by students under Lechner’s supervision, which are compiled in the appended booklet. Yet Thinking Design also offers an original theoretical reflection on the status of the urban periphery and opens questions about architecture and architectural design research as a practice of critical inquiry. "Thinking Design provides an important critical overview for theories and projects of typology and will offer a useful compendium for the student and teacher of architecture as well as the critical practitioner. What seems significant and admirable in Lechner's writing, projects, and teaching is that intellectual culture and creative intuitive approaches are kept in close proximity to the critical rational tradition.'' (83) There is an identifiable allegiance to Rossi mixed with Venturi and Scott Brown (1972, 1991), and John Hejduk (1985) as reference points. He draws on the analytical and typological processes associated with Aldo Rossi's (1966, 1982) reading of cities as a composition of monuments - permanent traces, and collective memory - but Lechner applies those approaches to interpret city edges, commercial vernacular, and the urban periphery. "Lechner's work is compelling and stimulating. In: Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, Volume 46/1 (2022), 83-88. Review by Cameron McEwan, “Peripheral Monuments: Book Review of Thinking Design - Blueprint for an architecture of typology by Andreas Lechner”, Hardback, 460 pages, 444 b-w illustrations and plans Each example is meticulously illustrated with a newly drawn elevation or axonometric projection, floor plan, and section, not only invigorating the underlying ideas but also making the book an ideal comparative compendium.Īn enclosed booklet (32 pages, 19.5 x 28 cm, 58 b-w illustrations) features theses by twelve students of Graz University of Technology that further illustrate Andreas Lechner's approach in teaching and design. It reveals also the cultural dimension of architecture that gives it the ability to transcend not only use cycles but entire epochs. This emphasis on composition in the design process over the more commonplace aspects of function, purpose, or atmosphere makes it more than a mere planning manual. As such, Thinking Design outlines a new building theory rooted in the act of composition as an aesthetic determinant of architectural form. Encompassing a total of 144 carefully selected examples of classic designs and buildings, ranging across an epic sweep from antiquity to the present, the book not only explains the fundamentals of collective architectural knowledge but traces the interconnected reiterations that lie at the heart of architecture’s transformative power. Divided into three chapters - Tectonics, Type, and Topos - Lechner's book reflects upon twelve fundamental typologies: theater, museum, library, state, office, recreation, religion, retail, factory, education, surveillance, and hospital. In Thinking Design, Austrian architect Andreas Lechner has condensed his profound typological understanding into a single book. However disparate the style or ethos, beneath architecture's pluralism lies a number of categorical typologies. Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology
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