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Judging Architectural Value A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders Introduction by Michael Benedikt Table of Contents		$22.95 paper ISBN: 0-8166-5011-X ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5011-8 $69.00 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-5010-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5010-1
Architects, critics, and scholars debate what makes architecture bad, good, and great. When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects themselves? These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing values influence opinions about it. In the intriguing opening essay, Michael Benedikt makes an argument for the role of architects in the delineation of value in architecture. He discusses the differences between icon and canon, a theme threaded through many of the essays. In addition to unexpected analyses of buildings such as Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture Building at Yale University, and the work of Antoni Gaudí and Frank Gehry, the collection includes a clear-eyed look at the role of architecture in addressing social problems. Ultimately, these essays assert that judging architecture requires more than a refined sensibility. Buildings also need to be evaluated by their impact on the people living within and around them. Contributors: John Beardsley, Michael Benedikt, Tim Culvahouse, Lisa Finley, Kurt W. Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Charles Jencks, David Leatherbarrow, Nancy Levinson, Hélène Lipstadt, Juhani Pallasmaa, Timothy M. Rohan, Roger Scruton, Daniel Willis. William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller and editor of three other Harvard Design Magazine Readers. Michael Benedikt is Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. 192 pages | 25 halftones | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2007 Harvard Design Magazine Reader Series, volume 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface William S. Saunders Introduction Michael Benedikt 1. Learning from St. Louis: The Arch, the Canon, and Bourdieu Hélène Lipstadt 2. What Goes Unnoticed: On the Canonical Quality of the PSFS Building David Leatherbarrow 3. Canon and Anti-Canon: On the Fall and Rise of the A + A Timothy M. Rohan 4. Canons in Cross Fire: On the Importance of Critical Modernism Charles Jencks 5. In the Shadow of a Giant: On the Consequences of Canonization Daniel Willis 6. Eyesore or Art? On Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project John Beardsley 7. Toward an Architecture of Humility: On the Value of Experience Juhani Pallasmaa 8. Why Are Some Buildings More Interesting Than Others? Kurt W. Forster 9. Questions of Value: An Interview with Kenneth Frampton William S. Saunders and Nancy Levinson 10. Most Architecture Should Be Modest: On Architecture and Aesthetic Judgment Roger Scruton 11. From Taste to Judgment: Multiple Criteria in the Evaluation of Architecture William S. Saunders 12. Once Again by the Pacific: Returning to Sea Ranch Tim Culvahouse and Lisa Findley 13. The Absence of Presence: The Knickerbocker Residence and the Fate of Nonelitist Architecture Diane Ghirardo Contributors

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