Architecture and Affect

NOTE EDITORE

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse? Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such refrains to a concept of architecture wedged in the middle ground—jammed amidst life, things and events. Rather than being aloof from its surrounds, architecture-in-the-midst challenges an autonomous epistemology. Beyond accounting for the vivid but excluded, this book develops a frame and a disposition for thinking critically about, speculatively through, and being grounded by, encounter. Examining affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore, it details architecture’s uneasy but inextricable relationship with key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the scenic and the decorative. The outcome is a politicized architectural discourse simultaneously grounded and speculative; bridging depth and intuition, thinking and feeling.

SOMMARIO

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface: Squinting from a Blindspot Acknowledgements Introduction- Knowing Otherwise: Architecture after affect PART I: MONUMENT Chapter 1: The Ruled and the Unruly: Animality, anecdotes and storytelling Chapter 2: Tracing the Last Tiger | The Third Archive Chapter 3: After the Last Train: Remainders at the Tanjong Pagar Station PART II: BLOCK Chapter 4: Keeping Cats, Hoarding Things: Situations in the housing block Chapter 5: Anarchiving Public Housing | The Third Archive Chapter 6: 03-FLATS: Architecture filmmaking, disciplinary questions PART III: LANDSCAPE Chapter 7: In the Midst of: Field notes at a cemetery Chapter 8: Holes in the Ground | The Third Archive Chapter 9: The Sea, and the Sea: Infrastructure and the dialectical image Index

AUTORE

Lilian Chee is Associate Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the National University of Singapore, where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster. Her research revolves around architectural representation, affect theory, feminist politics, and creative practice methods. Her works include the award-winning essay film 03-FLATS (2014), the documentary Objects for Thriving (2022), and a co-edited book Remote Practices (2022). She leads a Social Sciences Research Council funded project about home-based labour. She writes on affect, architectural representation and domesticity.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781472454638
• Collana: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.93 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 99 b/w images and 99 halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 366
• Pagine Romane: xxii