Contested territory of architectural theory
This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, 17 original con…
"Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan - Shadowing the Public Realm methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and post-modern architects. It begins with what is arguably, the central concept for each discipline, by putt…
This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture. Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central t…
Through a collection of 13 essays, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be…
"Through a collection of 13 essays, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces b…
"Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist. By tracing the origins and promises of current technological practices in design, the book provides an alternat…
"Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist. By tracing the origins and promises of current technological practices in design, the book provides an alternat…
"Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design. It offers designers from disciplines such as architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, interiors, and industrial design an alternative et…
"The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferation through the major industrial centres of Britain. Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art, together with earlier exampl…
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Introduction Part I. Atmosphere -- 1 Atmosphere, a basic concept of a new aesthetic -- 2 The ecstasies of things -- 3 Material splendour -- 4 Atmospheres in architecture -- 5 The presence of living bodies in space -- 6 Atmospheres o…
"There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to architectural theory and aesthetics, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. Atmosphe…
"There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to architectural theory and aesthetics, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. Atmosphe…
Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy
by Green, Keith Evan, Braidotti, Rosi, Smith, Chris L., Tuinen, Sjoerd van, Rawes, Peg, Wolfe, Charles T., Radman, Andrej, Radman, Andrej, Kousoulas, Stavros, Sohn, Heidi, Dankelman, Jenny, Girard, Christian, Graafland, Arie, Martin, Katharina D., Oosterhuis, Kas, Prentice, Rachel
Discusses the newly emerging discourses between architecture and bio-medicineCritical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurring under the umbrella of New Materialism. This collectio…
Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy
by Green, Keith Evan, Braidotti, Rosi, Smith, Chris L., Tuinen, Sjoerd van, Rawes, Peg, Wolfe, Charles T., Radman, Andrej, Radman, Andrej, Kousoulas, Stavros, Sohn, Heidi, Dankelman, Jenny, Girard, Christian, Graafland, Arie, Martin, Katharina D., Oosterhuis, Kas, Prentice, Rachel
Discusses the newly emerging discourses between architecture and bio-medicineCritical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurring under the umbrella of New Materialism. This collectio…
'The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, t…
First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of re…
"In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes,…
"In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes,…