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Architecture as instauration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

George Dodds
George Dodds
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, College of Architecture and Design, 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996–2400, USA; [email protected]
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Abstract

Kieran Timberlake Architects have demonstrated in a series of built projects the constructive logic of architecture and the ability of buildings to alter our perception of a site. Their work exemplifies a respect for materials and assemblies and an interest in the idea of ‘instauration’, which views a place as one of continuous inhabitation. In an era in which architects often try to express non-architectural ideas through their buildings, KTA's return to the expressive power of construction and materials, of sensitive siting and understated form comes as a welcome change.

Type
design
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 127 - 150
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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