Speculative Coolness

Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual

Bryan Cantley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-31886-8 (ISBN)

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This book presents a selected body of Bryan Cantley's work, showcasing projects which seek to understand and explore the conditions, contexts, and media logics which govern a new territory of highly experimental architecture/design praxis, and to speculate on the Architecture[s] which it might occupy, and which might occupy it.

Cantley’s work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit. Speculative Coolness surveys and collects a highly experimental architecture/design praxis.

This book presents a selected body of his work, showcasing projects which seek to understand and explore the conditions, contexts, and media logics which govern this new territory, and to speculate on the Architecture[s] which it might occupy, and which might occupy it.

Featuring both resolved projects and work[s] that are under development, this anthology represents constructs that locate themselves somewhere between architecture and its documentative media. The projects are presented alongside a series of critical essays written by pre-eminent architectural practitioners and theorists. These essays explore the disciplinary, social, and cultural context of the work, serving to underscore the importance of these explorations to the expansion of disciplinary knowledge.

Author: Prof. Bryan Cantley: Bryan’s work attempts to blur the undefined zone between architecture and its representation. In 1992, Bryan Cantley established Form:uLA, a practice that explores the boundaries of architecture, representation and the role of experimental drawing, within the discourse of visionary space. He is a Full Professor of Design at California State University Fullerton. Bryan has lectured at a number of architecture schools internationally including The Bartlett School of Architcture, SCI-arc, and UCLA. He has been visiting faculty at SCI-ARC and Woodbury University. Bryan was the recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant in 2002. His work is in the Permanent Collection at SFMOMA, as well as the personal collection of Thom Mayne. Bryan has shown work in a number of institutions, including SFMOMA, and solo exhibitions at The Bartlett, SCI-arc, and UCLA. His first monograph, Mechudzu, was published by Springer in 2010. Editor: Peter J Baldwin: Peter is a registered and chartered Architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture, M, Arch Programme Leader and Director of Scholarship and Professional Practice at the University of Lincoln’s School of Architecture and the Built Environment. Peter has taught and lectured at Schools across the UK. Peter’s research explores the role of the drawing as an environment for speculation and the generative potential of non-traditional modes of architectural representation. Peter has lectured and taught in schools of architecture across the UK and his work has been published and exhibited internationally, most recently as part of the "In Memoriam" Exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture 2020.

Foreword: ‘Architectural Cymbalism and the Caress of Steel; Editorial: ‘Read Me’ Instructions for Proper Use; 1. Emergent CONditions + Media Logics; ME-di@ Logics + Being in the [k]now; Alice [2.0]; CSFU Sentinel; ‘Ten Years After’; 2. Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections; Social AMPs 01,02 + 03; OMWFT WYSIWYG; COSMO; 3. Towards a Taxonometric Architecture; Tree Hugger; On the Move; Palimpsestuous Relationships; Ideal for frequent drawers. Not for any use on skin, including tattoos; 4. rE-mergent CONditions; Ozone Metric Anomaly; Ministry of [w]Hore-2:culture; Calibrating Space; Towards a s[Y/N]thetic Reality; 5. Speculative Conditions; ‘S(y/n)taxo[G]nome + (taxon objects)’; ‘20220202_02’; Camera Noxoculo; H[n]otel-CA; DomestiC-19; Eye, Hand and Mind: an interview with Bryan Cantley; Afterword: Human Error

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	289 Halftones, color; 289 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 280 mm
Gewicht	1020 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-032-31886-4 / 1032318864
ISBN-13	978-1-032-31886-8 / 9781032318868
Zustand	Neuware