CiNii Books - The new urban condition : criticism and theory from architecture and urbanism

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are "post-critical," this book seeks to expand the critical dimension of architecture and urbanism. In a series of historical and theoretical studies, this book examines how the materialities, forms, and practices of architecture and urban design can act as a critique towards the new urban condition. It proposes not only new concepts and theories but also instruments of analysis and reflection to better understand the current counter-hegemonic tendencies in both disciplinary strategies and appropriation tactics. The diversely international selection of chapters, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United States, and the Netherlands, combine different theoretical and empirical perspectives into a new analysis of the city and architecture. Demonstrating the need for new critical urban and architectural thinking that engages with the challenges and processes of the contemporary urban condition, this volume will be a thought-provoking read for academics and students in architecture, urban design, geography, political science, and more.

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Introduction Leandro Medrano, Luiz Recaman, and Tom Avermaete Part I: Theoretical Tenets 1. Remains of Architectural Reason Luiz Recaman 2. On Architecture and Urban Space After the Ideological Crisis of Neoliberalism Leandro Medrano 3. Constructing the Commons: Towards another Architectural Theory of the City? Tom Avermaete 4. Erving Goffman's Sociology of Physical Space for Architects and Urban Designers Fraya Frehse 5. Broken Windows, Revisited Reinhold Martin 6. Architecture and Critical Project Sven-Olov Wallenstein 7. Ruins of the Future Otilia Arantes Part II: Rethinking Spatial Rhythms 8. Henri Lefebvre and the Morphology of a Spatial Dialectic Cesar Simoni Santos 9. Anthropophagic Phenomenology: Encounters at Lina Bo's SESC Pompeia Cultural and Leisure Center Natalia Escobar Castrillon 10. Incremental Housing: A Short History of an Idea Nelson Mota 11. The Bubble, the Arrow, and the Area: Urban Design and Diagrammatic Concepts of Human Action Daniel Koch Part III: Contemporary Spatial Forms of the City 12. The Subaltern City: Revisiting the Materialist Critique of Urban Form Marta Caldeira 13. The Chronicles of Neo Janina Gosseye 14. The Legitimized Reproduction of a Corporate Typology: Dispositions of Architectural Form in the LEED (R) Rating System Raphael Grazziano 15. What Ever Happened to Social Housing? Sergio Martin Blas 16. Five Fronts for One Single Position: Critical Strategies for Contemporary Pedagogy in the Subject of Architectural Design Carmen Espegel Alonso and Daniel Movilla Vega Index

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