Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity

Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architecture’s contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding, and labor.

Fundamental to this proposition is the historicity of Gottfried Semper’s theorization of architecture amidst the outpouring of new materi...