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Source: Perspecta, Vol. 21 (1984), pp. 1-5

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 Perspecta 21
The Yale Architectural Journal

Petition

W. H. Auden

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all

But will its negative inversion, be prodigal:

Send to us power and light, a sovereign touch

Curing the intolerable neural itch,

The exhaustion of weaning, the liar's quinsy,

And the distortions of ingrown virginity.

Prohibit sharply the rehearsed response

And gradually correct the coward's stance;

Cover in time with beams those in retreat

That, spotted, they turn though the reverse

were great;

Publish each healer that in city lives

Or country houses at the end of drives;

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at

New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

reprinted from
The English Auden:
Poems, Essays & Dramatic Writings, 1927- 1939,
by W. H. Auden, ed. by Eduard Mendelson,
by permission of RandomN House, Inc.

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Perspecta: The Yale Architectural
Journal, Inc., and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, except ?On a
Redefinition of Public Sculpture?
copyright ? 1982 by Mary Miss

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 About Perspecta 21

The printing of Architecture is not an isolated or

this journal was made autonomous medium; it is actively
possible in part by engaged by the social, intellectual, and
generous gifts from: visual culture which is outside the
Gunnar Birkerts discipline and which encompasses it.
John Burgee Though grounded in the time and place
Centerbrook Architects of its making, architecture is capable
David M. Childs of reshaping the cultural matrix from
Henry Cobb which it rises. A vital architecture is one
WarrenJ. Cox that resonates with that culture. It is

Gwathmey Siegel and Associates this resonance, not reference to some

HelmutJahn locus left behind or yet to be found,
Kohn Pedersen Fox which gives architecture its power.
Herbert McLaughlin
Charles Moore Perspecta 21 is a collection which
Cesar Pelli examines how architecture is affected by
Jaquelin Robertson concerns outside those inherent to
Kevin Roche building. It is based on a premise that
Der Scutt architecture is inevitably involved with
Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown questions more difficult than those
of form or style; questions arising
in literature, politics, philosophy,
painting, and sculpture influence the
work of architects in America today.

The essays included herein study today's

architecture in relation to the wider
cultural field of our time, and also
consider how the architecture of the past
is reconceived and repossessed according
to the knowledge of our own day. By
examining the unsure ground at the
edge of the discipline's established
precincts, by advancing new theory, or
by re-evaluating important work of the
past according to new criteria, this
journal considers architecture as an
artifact embedded in the cultural matrix
of the present. To free the discussion of
architecture from entrenched patterns,
Perspecta 2 1 presents an examination of
the forms and ideas at hand in America
today from which fresh patterns may
originate to make architecture new.

CarolJ. Burns
Robert Taylor

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 Contents

6 52

Gavin Macrae-Gibson The Continuity Mary Miss On a Redefinition of

of the Modern Public Sculpture
Gavin Macrae-Gibson Mary Miss is a sculptor
practices architecture in in New York City and
New York City and is teaches at Cooper Union
associate professor of and the School of Visual
architecture at Yale and Arts in New York.

Columbia Universities. Recent works have been

He is the author of at the Fogg Museum,

<Forms and Thought: the Institute of
Representation in Contemporary Art in
American Architectureo London, and Laumeier

to be published in 1985 Sculpture Park in St.

by MIT Press. Louis.

14 70

K. Michael Hays Critical Architecture 4 +4 The Norfolk Projects

Between Culture and Form
Four young sculptors
and four young
K. Michael Hays is an
architects were
architect in Boston and
commissioned to build
an assistant professor
outdoor structures at
of architecture and
Norfolk, Connecticut.
architectural history at
Their work is
the Rhode Island School
documented through
of Design.
photographs, drawings,
and statements.

30
80
Steven Holl Teeter-Totter Principles
Steven Holl is an
The Editors New Work: Io Architects
architect in New York
A selection of recent
City and assistant
projects by ten American
professor of architecture
architects.
at Columbia University.
He is the founder of the
Pamphlet Architecture
series, and has authored
several of the pamphlets.

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 I00 144
Marc Hacker Notes on a Hal Foster (Post) Modern Polemic
Changed World Hal Foster is a critic

in New York City and

Marc Hacker practices senior editor of <Art in
architecture in New America. o He edited the

York City and is a

collection ,The Anti-
visiting design critic Aesthetic: Essays on
at Harvard University.
Postmodern Culture,
published in 1983 by
Bay Press.
IIO

Diane Ghirardo The Architecture

154
of Deceit Peter Eisenman The End of the Classical:
the End of the Beginning,
Diane Ghirardo teaches
the End of the End
architecture at the

University of Southern
Peter Eisenman is a
California and has
partner in the firm of
published frequently
EisenmanlRobertson
on architecture in both
Architects, New York
Italian and English.
City, visiting professor
She translated the
in architecture at
American edition of
Harvard University,
Aldo Rossi's <<The
and founder of the
Architecture of the City, Institute of Architecture
published in 1982 by
and Urban Studies.
Opposition Books.
He is editor of

<<Oppositions, Magazine
and the author of
116 <House X, published in
1983 by Rizzoli Books.
Peter Papademetriou Coming of Age
Eero Saarinen and
Modern American Architecture

Peter Papademetriou is
a partner in Lonnecker +
Papademetriou +
Waldman, Architects,
and associate professor of
architecture at Rice

University. He is editor
of the (Journal of
Architectural

Education.

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