Global perspectives on critical architecture : praxis reloaded
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Global perspectives on critical architecture : praxis reloaded
(Ashgate studies in architecture series)
Ashgate, c2015
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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?
Table of Contents
- 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
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