Mapping controversies in architecture
This book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture? It places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to r…
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- Full title :Mapping controversies in architecture / by Albena Yaneva.
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This book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture? It places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run between local and global, social and technical. Mapping controversies can be extrapolated to a wide range of complex phenomena of hybrid nature.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Burlington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781409426691, 1409426696, 1283479842, 9781283479844
- oclc:ocn778376743
- LC Classification:NA2750
- Dewey Decimal:720.1/03
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Rethinking bifurcations -- pt. 2. Mapping processes.
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