I met only one of them in person, and learned from the others through books –Alberti, Semper, Ungers. After them, no one else came along for a long time, or at most one or two, perhaps. In concert, they left behind nothing less than an intellectual foundation for the discipline, and in their absence, I can hardly imagine – nor would I wish to – the conceptual or pragmatic structure of architecture. As architects, this trio of theoreticians also left behind realized buildings: theory here means the theory of praxis, and encompasses design and building…
Autor: Uwe Schröder
Titel: The value of theory for architectural design
Sammelband/Zeitschrift: Younés, Samir (Ed.), The intellectual life of the architect
Übersetzung: Ian Pepper
Verlag: PAPADAKIS
Ort: Great Britain
Datum: 2018
Seite(n): S. 162-171
ISBN: 978 1 906506 66 7
Schriften: Drei Lehrer. Vom Wert der Theorie für den architektonischen Entwurf, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln