Download or read book Can Architectural Art-form be Designed Out of Construction? written by Markus Breitschmid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay argues that the axiomatic definition of the tectonic "Poetics of Construction", as it has been advocated en recent decades, is focusing too one-sidedly on architecture's tangible materiality, and undermines the capability of architecture to contain representational values and to hold civilizing meaning.