Robert E. Somol

Details

Nationality

American

Notes

Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago. Author of the introduction 'Dummy Text, or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture' to Eisenman's Diagram Diaries (1999) and, with Sarah Whiting, of the manifesto of 'projective' architecture.

Connections

• proposed Projective (postcritical) architecture
• proposed Critical vs Projective Architecture
• associated with Postcritical / Projective architecture
• opposes Reinhold Martin
• collaborated with Peter Eisenman
• collaborated with Sarah Whiting
• authored Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism
• proposed Postcritical / Projective architecture
• founded Postcritical / Projective architecture

Sources

1. Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting. Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism. MIT Press, 2002.
2. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 6 of 20
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 4 of 18