VALUING ARCHITECTURE:
HERITAGE AND THE ECONOMICS OF CULTURE

Editor: Ashley Paine,
Susan Holden, John Macarthur
Published by Valiz
288 pages
16,5 x 23.5 cm
English
Softcover
ISBN 978-94-92095-93-0

Price: 128 lei


Architecture has always been found in a space between its economic and cultural values. Yet these values are often seen as compromised by, or contingent upon, forces outside the discipline: property prices, real estate markets, and the vicissitudes of local and global economies. The intersections of cultural and economic values are especially conspicuous in architectural heritage, where conflicts between them are most publicly and passionately contested. This book examines the different sites and occasions where such values are bestowed, exchanged, and can create friction through a collection of essays that tackle concrete cases, both historical and contemporary.

Case studies: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kanal–Centre Pompidou Brussels, Robin Hood Gardens, Peter & Alison Smithson, London, Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, MoMA and American Folk Art Museum, Metabolist architecture, Brutalist architecture, and many others

Contributors: Daniel M. Abramson, Tom Brigden, Alex Brown, Amy Clarke, Wouter Davidts, Bart Decroos, Susan Holden, Jordan Kauffman, Hamish Lonergan, John Macarthur, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Ashley Paine, Anton Pereira, Andrea Phillips, Lara Schrijver, Ari Seligmann, Kirsty Volz, Rosemary Willink