文档介绍：The Portfolio and the Diagram
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The Portfolio and the Diagram
ARCHITECTURE, DISCOURSE, AND MODERNITY IN AMERICA
Hyungmin Pai
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
© 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pai, Hyungmin.
The portfolio and the diagram : architecture, discourse, and modernity in America /
Hyungmin Pai.
p. cm.
Based on author’s thesis.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-262-16206-7 (hc. : alk. paper)
1. Communication in architecture—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.
NA2584 .P35 2002
724´.6´01—dc21
2001059645
to my father and mother
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (viii)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (xviii)
Introduction (2)
PART ONE
The Portfolio and Academic Discourse: Formation and Crisis
1 Discourse, Mass Architecture, and the Academic Profession (12)
The Discursive Formation of Mass Architecture and the Academic Profession (13)
The Portfolio and the Architectural Journal (25)
2 The Portfolio and the Academic Discipline (40)
Seeing, Reading, and Drawing: The Discursive Practice of the Portfolio (41)
Composition and the Paradox of Academic Theory (56)
Planning and the “Theory of the Plan”(64)
3 The Crisis of the Academic Profession (74)
The Architectural Profession in the 1910s: Crisis and Response (75)
Business, Efficiency,