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The Efficacy of Architecture
A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the ‘starchitecture’ system and the focus on aesthetic innovation, a growing number of architects, emboldened by the 2007–8 economic crisis, have staged a rebellion against the dominant mode of architectural production. Against a ‘disinterested’ position emulating high art, they have advocated political engagement, citizen participation and the right to the city. Against the fascination with the rarefied architectural object, they have promoted an interest in everyday life, play, self-build and personalization. At the centre of this rebelli...
Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media
This volume focusses on a rarely discussed method of meaning production, namely via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary, transmedial perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media. The meaningful silences, blanks, lacunae, pauses, etc., treated by the ten contributors are taken from language and literature, film, comics, opera and instrumental music, architecture, and the visual arts. Contributors are: Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, Olga Fischer, Saskia Jaszoltowski, Henry Keazor, Peter Revers, Klaus Rieser, Daniel Stein, Anselm Wagner, Werner Wolf
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into three parts – Practices, Interrogations, and Innovations – this book charts diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars and fresh theoretical orientations. The collection features 29 chapters written by leading architectural scholars and highlights the reciprocity between the historical and the contemporary, research and practice, and disciplinary and professional knowledge. Providing an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture, the Companion will interest students, academics, and practitioners who wish to bolster their understanding of built environments.
Rechte Räume
Gibt es eine architektonische und städtebauliche Agenda hinter der Politik zeitgenössischer rechtspopulistischer, rechtsradikaler, rechtsextremistischer und (neo-)faschistischer Kräfte? Und wenn ja: Inwieweit macht sich hierfür die sogenannte "Mitte der Gesellschaft" zur unfreiwilligen Helferin? Diese Leitfragen ziehen sich durch die in diesem Band versammelten, teils vieldiskutierten Essays und Gespräche von Stephan Trüby. Ihr Hintergrund: Viele westlich-liberal geprägte Demokratien erfahren derzeit einen bis vor wenigen Jahren kaum für möglich gehaltenen gesellschaftlichen Rollback. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie die politische Rechte in Deutschland und darüber hinaus die Architektur, die Stadt und das Land zu formen versucht.
Is There (anti-)neoliberal Architecture?
Over the last three decades neoliberal ideology has irreversibly changed our political and economic reality. But what - if any -relationship exists between neoliberalism and our built environment? This book seeks to complement the prevailingly geographical and sociological approaches to neoliberalism by (re)addressing the subject from the specific perspective of architectural theory. The articles collected in the volume focus on various dimensions of the contemporary architecture-system including: architectural practice, disciplinary status, discourse, exemplary projects, theoretical concepts etc. The result offers a multifaceted picture of architecture in the era of neoliberalism and its crisis.
The Studio
This volume focus in particular is on the cutting-edge thinking and wider theoretical questions and themes that underpin the series, from reflections upon what our ideas of “future” really mean to the changing role of the architecture profession as a whole. Comprising speculative visions, essays and texts, this volume serves as a theoretical backdrop for the practical approaches seen in Volume 3: The Site. This volume comprises speculative visions, essays and texts from contributors including: Ana Jeinic, Miloš Kosec, Clément Blanchet, Amateur Cities, Liam Young, Something Fantastic, Merve Bedir, Tomaž Pipan, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Tiago Torres-Campos and Reinier de Graaf. Designed by Diana Portela with Janar Siniloo and Lena Giovanazzi.
Mies van der Rohe im Diskurs
Die Arbeiten von Mies van der Rohe haben bis heute nicht an Aktualität verloren. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge, die würdigend auf die Arbeiten des Architekten blicken und sich auf innovative Weise mit ihm auseinandersetzen. Hierbei erweitern die Autoren mit ihren Positionen bestehende Forschungsansätze und greifen Fragen der Entwurfstechnik und der Rezeptionsästhetik auf. Darüber hinaus deuten sie Mies van der Rohe als Medienstrategen, umreißen seine Tätigkeit für die Industrie und projizieren seine Impulse auf Folgegenerationen. Der Diskurs, der von etablierten Forschern bis hin zu Nachwuchswissenschaftlern geführt wird, erstreckt sich über Philosophie, Bildende Kunst, Architekturtheorie sowie Kunst- und Mediengeschichte.
Building Critique
For much of the 20th century, critique played an important part in what was considered "modern" architecture; the canon of modern architecture considered itself dedicated to both formal progress and social critique. But as the 1960s spurred a rereading of modern architecture from a perspective informed by Marxism and the decade's new social movements, many concluded that a building practice could not be critical, owing to its interdependent relationship with power and business. With recent economic crises hitting the building and property sectors, and research playing an increasingly large role in architectural practice, we are witnessing a renewed interest in critique in contemporary architecture, especially from postcolonial and feminist positions. The essays contained in this book, authored by a variety of international architects and thinkers, address this revived moment of critique, arguing that, far from being dead, architectural critique is now indispensable.
Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation
Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period spanning from 1966 to the first years of the current century – a period which saw radical change in economy, politics, and culture and a period in which architecture radically transformed, substituting the alleged dreariness of modernism with spectacle.
utopisch dystopisch
1516 verfasste Thomas Morus mit seinem Buch Utopia den Entwurf einer „idealen“ Gesellschaft. In den darauffolgenden 500 Jahren wurden zahlreiche Utopien, Mätopien oder auch Dystopien mit unterschiedlichsten Gesellschaftsentwürfen geschrieben. Der Band thematisiert aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive, welche Vorstellungen sich als Alternativen in Gesellschaft und Politik entwickelt haben, inwieweit sich die Entwürfe in der Realität durchgesetzt haben und welche neuen Zukunftsentwürfe sich bis heute nachzeichnen lassen.
