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Today, in the face of the challenges confronting their profession, from the economic crisis to an urgent need for longer-lasting, more affordable, and greener construction, architects have been forced to reconsider the relationship between architecture and society, between buildings, their inhabitants, and the environment. No single individual did more to build this discourse than Robert Gutman. Sometimes referred to as the sociological father of architecture, Gutman in his writing andteaching initiated a conversation about the occupants of buildings and the forms, policies, plans, and theories that architects might shape. A sociologist by training, Gutman infiltrated architectures ranks in the mid-1960s. Over the next four decades at Princetons School of Architecture, Gutman wrote about architecture and taught generations of future architects, while still maintaining an outsider status that allowed him to see the architectural profession in an insightful, unique, and alwayshonest way.

Architecture From the Outside In is the only book of Gutman's collected essays to span his entire career, with the earliest essay included from 1965, and the most recent from 2005. Before his death in 2007, Gutman wrote a new introduction for the book, its chapters, and each of the included essays. The fourteen essays included here are the rare case of valuable historical documents that remain relevant to architects practicing today. Editors Dana Cuff and John Wriedt added twelve dialogues by some of Gutman's former students, now some of the best-known architects and theorists of today: Bryan Bell, Deborah Berke, Peggy Deamer, Frank Duffy, Keller Easterling, Robert Fishman, Marta Gutman, Wallis Miller, David Mohney, Patricia Morton, Eric Mumford, and Sarah Whiting. These essays give a contemporary response to Gutman's work, and makeArchitecture From the Outside In an invaluable addition to any contemporary architect's library.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword(p. 8)
• Acknowledgments(p. 10)
• A Note on the Dialogues(p. 11)
• Before and Beyond Outside In(p. 13)
• Introduction(p. 27)
• 1 Practices
• 1.1 Architecture: The Entrepreneurial Profession(p. 32)
• 1.2 Professions and Their Discontents: The Psychodynamics of Architectural Practice(p. 43)
• 1.3 The Designer in Architectural Practice(p. 61)
• Dialogue 1 Pre-form and Post-form Design Activism(p. 76)
• Dialogue 2 Design and Contemporary Practice(p. 81)
• Dialogue 3 Fitting In: Architecture in the Art Gallery(p. 86)
• 2 Buildings and Projects
• 2.1 Human Nature in Architectural Theory: The Example of Louis Kahn(p. 94)
• 2.2 House VI(p. 119)
• 2.3 Building Evaluation, User Satisfaction, and Design(p. 127)
• Dialogue 4 Asking Questions(p. 144)
• Dialogue 5 An Architecture of the Workplace(p. 148)
• 3 Sociology and Architecture
• 3.1 The Questions Architects Ask(p. 152)
• 3.2 Site Planning and Social Behavior(p. 186)
• Dialogue 6 Sociologists in the Studio: Conflict and Cooperation(p. 202)
• Dialogue 7 Parallels and Connections(p. 207)
• 4 Housing
• 4.1 A Sociologist Looks at Housing(p. 214)
• 4.2 U.S. Architects and Housing: 5 Relationships(p. 227)
• 4.3 Two Questions for Architecture(p. 239)
• Dialogue 8 Translating the Harsh Speech of the Developer: Robert Gutman and the Design of American Housing(p. 246)
• Dialogue 9 Modern Housing: A California Story(p. 251)
• 5 Architectural Education
• 5.1 Educating Architects: Pedagogy and the Pendulum(p. 258)
• 5.2 Discipline Building(p. 287)
• 5.3 Two Discourses of Architectural Education(p. 297)
• Dialogue 10 The Place of the Public in Architectural Education: A Case Study in Kentucky(p. 309)
• Dialogue 11 Welcome to the Banquet (or, How to Increase the Relative Happiness of the M. Arch. Thesis Student)(p. 313)
• Dialogue 12 The Activist Entrepreneur(p. 318)
• Selected Bibliography of Publications(p. 326)
• Index(p. 330)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles.

John Wriedt is an architect and writer who lives in Princeton, New Jersey.