Simplicity must not be taken to be the synonym of ‘poverty,’ or to mean a retrogression. Simplicity progresses in the same way as refinement…

-Jean Cocteau, Call to Order

Oscar Wilde once wrote ‘to get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.’ Sparkling epigram though it is, it suggests a path towards folly, rather than redemption. CALL TO ORDER, on the other hand, espouses examining the past to predict, and dictate, our present.

The first in a series of books to be produced by the University of Miami School of Architecture, is inspired by rappel l’ordre, the post WWI, European, art movement that rejected the extreme tenets of the avant garde and its praise of machinery, violence and war, in favour of a renewed interest in tradition. CALL TO ORDER, suggests a re-grouping and a re-grounding upon the foundations of the discipline and examines an international group of architects who are ostensibly rehearsing the ethos of the Neo-rationalist movement when architects and thinkers converged in their resistance to what they saw as an erosion of the discipline by behaviourism and the social sciences. CALL TO ORDER frames and examines similar resistant practices in the contemporary architectural scene and in the context of a long historical trajectory to tease out and articulate a cultural project that is relevant to the ongoing architectural debate.

The book frames and examines similar resistant practices in the contemporary architectural scene and in the context of a long historical trajectory to tease out and articulate a cultural project that is relevant to the ongoing architectural debate.

CALL TO ORDER, suggests a re-grouping and a re-grounding upon the foundations of the discipline and examines an international group of architects who are ostensibly rehearsing the ethos of the Neo-rationalist movement when architects and thinkers converged in their resistance to what they saw as an erosion of the discipline by behaviorism and the social sciences.

A cohesive examination of the highly influential output of the University of Miami School of Architecture, including writings by illustrious architects and scholars including Carie Penabad, Rodolphe El-Khoury, Jean-François Lejeune, Esteban Salcedo, Katherine Wheeler, and Adib Curé, as well as a Young Architects Symposium, exploring the tenets of post-rationalism, highlighting dozens of projects, both conceptual and built, from students and alumni alike.

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