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Domain
(Perspecta : the Yale architectural journal, 44)
MIT Press, c2011
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Description
Essays, interviews, and projects explore an expanded vocabulary of spatial practice.
Architecture exists in the public sphere and is the product of collective work and knowledge. Yet the defining boundaries of the discipline are often contested. Architects can and often must embody a spectrum of characters in their practice: politician, artist, physicist, entrepreneur. Likewise, a building is the nexus of multifaceted economies, legislations, and information systems. Since "architecture" has become a metonym for increasingly distributed persons and practices, how-and for whom-do we establish its domain?
To trace the evolving meanings of the term "domain" is to trace the changing ways that space has been defined, accessed, and constructed: from domain as a territory of private ownership or legal control; to the egalitarian promise of public domain; to an Internet site situated within an infinitely dispersed global network. Each of these shifts poses dramatic changes to how we conceive of boundaries, physically and conceptually. But as we insist on staking boundaries, we are impelled to search for their limits-however remote or nebulous.
This issue of Perspecta-the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America-offers an initial expedition into the contested spaces of architecture's domains. Perspecta 44's multidisciplinary scope, with contributors ranging from legal scholars to software engineers, asserts a new set of coordinates for mapping the terms of architectural production. By embracing the inherent complexities of Domain, Perspecta 44 seeks to overcome the architect's conventional repertoire-Site, Program, and Client-and propose instead Field, Protocol, and User as an expanded vocabulary for spatial practice, not without boundaries but rather abiding by the shifting logics and contours of public space.
Contributors
BekaFilms, R. Howard Bloch, Craig Buckley, Mario Carpo, common room, Peggy Deamer, Neil Denari, Forum for Urban Design, Sophie Houdart, Sam Jacob, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Bruno Latour, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Meier, Ralitza Petit, Nasser Rabbat, Casey Reas and Ben Fry et al. Michael Rock, C. Dana Tomlin, Stuart Wrede
Table of Contents
Preface, by Tala Gharagozlou and David Sadighian
The Pedigreed Domain of Architecture: A View from the Cultural Margin, by Nasser Rabbat
Viollet-le-Duc's "Republic of Architectural Art": The Greco-Gothic Revival and the Building of Modern France, by R Howard Block
How (Far) Does Culture go? Kengo Kuma and His Architecture, by Sophie Houdart
One Text and Eight Projects, by Office Kersten Geers and David Van Severen
HL23: Three Public Domains, by Neil Denari
Public Territories and Reclaimed Infrastructure: A Panel Discussion on the High Liine and Hudson River Park, by The Forum from Urban Design, New York, NY, November 17, 2010
Why Do Architects Read Latour?, An Interview with Bruno Latour
"A Definite and Persistent Monster": Tony Smith's Urban Vision, by Craig Buckley
The Craftsman and the Curator, by Mario Carpo
Avatar-Space: The Ego Inc., by Ralitza Petit
Vox Populi/Vox Dei: Richard Meier Builds in Tor Tre Teste, by BekaFilms and Richard Meier, with Perspecta 44
The 5 Obstructions (For Architecture), by common room
Revisiting 1968-69: On Novum Organum and Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Stuart Wrede
Dot Dot Dot., by Sam Jacob
Mapping What Isn't Quite There, by C Dana Tomlin
Processing Architecture, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry el al.
Practicing Practice, by Peggy Deamer
Graphic Design in the Expanded Field, An Interview with Michael Rock, 2x4, New York, NY, July 27, 2010
Re-crafting a Public Domain, by Lawrence Lessig
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