PLATFORM: Poetics of Building

SPRING 2013

This issue edited by Professor of Practice Coleman Coker considers the poetics of building. Poetics traditionally has been advanced through thinking about a work’s materiality, its contextuality, and temporality. In academic circles today, a poetics of building is rarely used as a conduit for advancing design. So, why an issue now on the poetics of our built environment? Is poiesis still a worthwhile area through which to explore design today? The question put to our contributors was this: does a study of poetics still lend meaning and magnitude to built work in today’s multivalent culture?

EDITOR

Coleman Coker

MANAGING EDITOR

Pamela Peters

CONTRIBUTORS

Frederick R. Steiner
Coleman Coker
Steven Apfelbaum
Elizabeth Rogers Tiller
Angelo Bucci
David Buege
Derek Dellekamp
Yaoci Pardo
Catherine Seavitt
Guy Nordenson
Jason Sowell
Clive Dilnot
Lori Ryker
Barbara Hoidn
Juhani Pallasmaa

FEATURED ALUMNI

Greg Guernsey
Michael H. Hsu
Sam Kumar