POETICS OF BUILDING
GUEST EDITOR COLEMAN COKER
SPRING 2013
MANAGING EDITOR PAMELA PETERS
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The Disruption of the Ordinary Dean’s Introduction FREDERICK R. STEINER
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Spring Poem IAN MCHARG
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Why Poetics…? Editor’s Introduction COLEMAN COKER
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Nature’s Poetry
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Know-how with No Why; No More ANGELO BUCCI
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STEVEN APFELBAUM AND ELIZABETH ROGERS TILLER
Tears of Armadillos DAVID BUEGE
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More Is Effort-less Or the Question of Poetic Pragmatism in Architecture DEREK DELLEKAMP AND YAOCI PARDO
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Pinocchio: Making a Thing Seven Models and Some Reflections on Their Making CATHERINE SEAVITT AND GUY NORDENSON
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Appearance and Action in the Poetics of Landscape JASON SOWELL
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Poetics, Dwelling, Imagination, Politics Why Poetics in an Age of Formal Invention? CLIVE DILNOT
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Poetics of Building/Poetic Expression LORI RYKER
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Poetics in Architecture BARBARA HOIDN
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The Usefulness of the Useless The Poetic Dimension of Architecture JUHANI PALLASMAA
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Stephanie Bower [B.Arch. ‘81] Alumni Profile AMY MAVERICK CROSSETTE
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Greg Guernsey [MSCRP ‘83] Alumni Profile AMY MAVERICK CROSSETTE
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Michael H. Hsu [B.Arch. ‘93] Alumni Profile AMY MAVERICK CROSSETTE
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Sam Kumar [M.S. Eng. ‘92] Philanthropy: Investing in Education
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Gifts to the School of Architecture JANUARY 1, 2012 – DECEMBER 31, 2012
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Philanthropy You Are a Friend of Architecture SOA.UTEXAS.EDU/FOA
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Advisory Council Members FY 2012-2013
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Texas (1954) Poem JOHN HEJDUK
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