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Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture Praxis Reloaded




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

Routledge

Pubblicazione: 11/2015
Edizione: 1° edizione





Note Editore

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the architect’s role in the design and production processes of architecture. Moreover, critical architectural theories, including those of Breton, Heidegger and Benjamin, which explored the concepts of technology, modernism, labour and capital and how technology informed the cultural, along with later theories from the 1960s, which focused more on the architect’s theorization of his/her own design strategies, seem increasingly irrelevant. In an age of digital reproduction and commodification, these theoretical approaches need to be reassessed. Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Peggy Deamer, Bernard Tschumi, Donald Kunze and Marco Biraghi, this volume investigates and critically addresses various dimensions of the present crisis of architecture. It poses questions such as: Is architecture a conservative cultural product servicing a given producer/consumer system? Should architecture’s affiliative ties with capitalism be subjected to a measure of criticism that can be expanded to the entirety of the cultural realm? Is architecture’s infusion into the cultural the reason for the visibility of architecture today? What room does the city leave for architecture beyond the present delirium of spectacle? Should the thematic of various New Left criticisms of capitalism be taken as the premise of architectural criticism? Or alternatively, putting the notion of criticality aside is it enough to confine criticism to the production of insightful and pleasurable texts?




Sommario

Introduction, Gevork Hartoonian; Chapter 1 Three Easy Fragments: Towards the Formation of Critical Architecture, Gevork Hartoonian; Chapter 2 Globalization and the Fate of Theory, Peggy Deamer; Part I Kenneth Frampton; Chapter 3 The Unsung Role of Metonymy in Constructing Sites of Exception: Ekphrasis, Divination, Epiphany, Donald Kunze; Chapter 4 Exit Implies Entries Lament: Open Architecture in John Hejduk’s IBA-1984/87 Immigrant Housing, Esra Akcan; Part II Mary Mcleod; Chapter 5 The Iconic and the Critical, Simone Brott; Chapter 6 The City in the Traumatic Scene of Modernity: On Critical Practice of Eingedenken, Nadir Lahiji; Part III Bernard Tschumi; Chapter 7 A Critical Assessment of Italian Architecture Since 1985, Marco Biraghi, Silvia Micheli; Chapter 8 “Toward a Civil Architecture”: Memorandum of a Critical Agenda in Contemporary Chinese Architecture, Wang Jun-Yang, He LiuPart IV Mark Wigley;




Autore

Gevork Hartoonian is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, and Course Convener of Master of Architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia. His research is focused on a critical archaeology of modern architecture’s appropriation of the nineteenth-century architectural discourses, the tectonics in particular. Hartoonian has contributed to numerous books, journal essays, conference proceedings, and is the author of several books, including Architecture and Spectacle: a critique, Ashgate, 2012; The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (pp.bk, 2013, 2011), Walter Benjamin and Architecture (pp.bk 2013, 2010), and Ontology of Construction (1994) a Korean edition of which was published in 2010. He was the 2013 visiting professor of architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9781472438133

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Dimensioni: 9.75 x 6.75 in Ø 1.50 lb
Formato: Copertina rigida
Pagine Arabe: 246


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