The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture

Swati Chattopadhyay, Jeremy White (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

488 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09034-4 (ISBN)

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This book convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice.

Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge 2005); Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (Minnesota 2012); and co-editor of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge 2014). Jeremy White is an architect and a game designer, and a lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-editor of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge 2014).

List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Contemporary Architecture, Crisis, and Critique. Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White

Part I: Design
2. Public Face and Private Space in the Design of Contemporary Houses. Alice T. Friedman 3. Designs on Disaster: Humanitarianism and Contemporary Architecture. Andrew Herscher 4. Architectures of Risk and Resiliency: “Embedded Security” in the Redesign of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Rachel Hall 5. When the Megaproject Meets the Village: Formal and Informal Urbanization in Southern China. Max Hirsh and Dorthy Tang 6 After the Counter-monument: Commemoration in the Expanded Field. Mechtild Widrich

Part II: Materiality
7. Architecture of Memory, Past and Future. Abby Smith Rumsey 8. Life and Death in the Anthropocene. Heather Davis 9. The Space of Relations: Body, Emotion, and Empathy in Architectural Experience. Sarah Robinson 10. Edges: Body, Space, and Design. Jeremy White 11. Habit’s Remainder. Aron Vinegar 12. Ephemeral Architecture: Toward Radical Contingency. Swati Chattopadhyay

Part III: Alterity
13. Inhabiting Ruins: The Ministry of Defense and the Limits of Occupation in Monrovia, Liberia. Danny Hoffman 14. Borderlands Architecture: Territories, Commons, and Breathing-Spaces. George F. Flaherty 15. Camps: Contemporary Environments of Autonomy, Necessity, and Control. Charlie Hailey 16. Defensive Alterity in Contemporary Sri Lankan Architecture. Anoma Pieris 17. Recasting the Ethnic Retail Street: Analyzing Contemporary Immigrant Architecture in the United States. Arijit Sen¿

Part IV: Technologies
18. Obsolescence and its Futures. Daniel M. Abramson 19. Intelligent Architectural Settings. Christopher Beorkrem and Eric Sauda 20. Future Architecture: Biohybrid Structures and Intelligent Materials. Ljilana Fruk and Veljko Armano Linta 21. Networked Urbanism: Definition, Scholarship, Directions. T. F. Tierney 22. The Architecture of Water. Karen Piper

Part V: Cityscapes
23. What Might Be: Re-describing Urbanscapes of the Global South. AbdouMaliq Simone 24. Watching the City: A Genealogy of Media Urbanism. Joshua Neves 25. The Singapore Flyer: View, Movement, Time, and Contemporaneity. Iain Borden 26. Bi-Space: The Original Social Networking Site. Craig Wilkins 27. Urchins in the Infrastructure: Building with Hedgehogs in the Multispecies City. Laura McLauchlan 28. Unsettling Formal Power Systems. Saskia Sassen

Part VI: Practice
29. Is It Really that Bad?: The Status of Women in Architecture and the Gender Equity Movement. Despina Stratigakos 30.Where is the Social Project? Kenny Cupers 31. Collaboration: Unresolved Forms of Working Together in Contemporary Architectural Practice. Sony Devabhaktuni and Min Kyung Lee 32. Starchitecture: Starchitect. Jeremy White 33. A Eulogy for the Present: The Death of Architecture, c.2000 Exhibition. Rohan Shivkumar 34. Architects “Getting Real”: On the Present-Day Professional Fictions. Arindam Dutta

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	141 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-032-09034-0 / 1032090340
ISBN-13	978-1-032-09034-4 / 9781032090344
Zustand	Neuware