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Architecture In Abjection

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Author : Zuzana Kovar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-30

Architecture In Abjection written by Zuzana Kovar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Architecture categories.

This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture - which presents the body as subject and space as object - it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages with complementary and complex ideas from architecture, philosophy, feminist theory and other subjects, demonstrating how both bodies and bodily functions relate deeply to architecture. Extending philosopher Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection - the confrontation of one's own corporeality as something is excreted - Kovar finds parallels in the concept of the 'scaffold.' Much like living bodies and their products can impact on the buildings that house them - old skin cells create dust, menstrual blood stains, our breath heats and cools surfaces - scaffolding is similarly ephemeral and yet not entirely separable from the architecture it supports. Kovar shifts the conversation about abjection towards a more nuanced idea of architecture - where living organisms, building matter, space, decay and waste are all considered as part of a continual process - drawing on the key informing works of thinkers like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to do this. Including a number of experimental projects conducted in the spaces inhabited by the author herself to illuminate the theory at its core, the book forms a distinguished and pioneering study designed for practitioners and scholars of architecture, philosophy and visual culture alike.

Architecture In Abjection

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Author : Zuzana Kovar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-30

Postcolonial Space S

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Author : Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoglu
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 1997

Postcolonial Space S written by Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoglu and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Architecture categories.

Eight essays challenge the tendency of previous studies of non-western architecture to pursue singular identities and to glorify pasts.

Remaking London

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Author : Ben Campkin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-08-13

Remaking London written by Ben Campkin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-13 with Political Science categories.

Between the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and debates about the post-Olympic city, the drive to 'regenerate' London has intensified. Yet today, with a focus on increasing land values, regeneration schemes purporting to foster diverse and creative new neighbourhoods typically displace precisely the qualities, activities and communities they claim to support. In Remaking London Ben Campkin provides a lucid and stimulating historical account of urban regeneration, exploring how decline and renewal have been imagined and realised at different scales. Focussing on present-day regeneration areas that have been key to the capital's modern identity, Campkin explores how these places have been stigmatised through identification with material degradation, and spatial and social disorder. Drawing on diverse sources - including journalism, photography, cinema, theatre, architectural design, advertising and television - he illuminates how ideas of decline drive urban change. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, Remaking London is both a compelling account of contested sites from the capital's recent history and a powerful critique of the contradictions of contemporary regeneration.

Dirt

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Author : Ben Campkin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-05

Dirt written by Ben Campkin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-05 with Political Science categories.

Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. The result is a a rich and challenging work that extends our understanding of historical and contemporary cultural manifestations of dirt and cleanliness.

The Space Of Technicity

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Author : Robert Gorny
language : en
Publisher: TU Delft OPEN Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-15

The Space Of Technicity written by Robert Gorny and has been published by TU Delft OPEN Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-15 with Architecture categories.

Desperate times demand optimistic transdisciplinary measures. This volume unites a select group of thinkers who courageously traverse disciplinary boundaries. What brings them together is the least stratified ‘component’: a shared problem. It is a widely recognised that a problem gets the solution it merits. However, only a few acknowledge that a problem seldom neatly fits within a single discipline, nor does it conform to the principle of general equivalence. Handling its irreducibility and non-entailment is a skill possessed by very few. Even fewer take the quasi-causal capacity of what we term the ‘space of technicity’ seriously. The space of technicity, the shared problem of this volume, is a consequence of immanence. Each configuration of surfaces comprising the built environment produces an intangible effect, acting as a quasi-cause. It can be referred to as downward causation or the timely rediscovery of (neo)finalism. In this volume it is approached it from the perspective of axiology. The space of technicity allows us to evade techno-determinism without adopting an anything-goes attitude. That which has become manifest could have individuated differently. However, the potential of a body cannot be discerned before intervening in the causal fabric of agential reality to extract the singular points that make certain outcomes more likely than others, surpassing mere probability. When operating within the ethico-aesthetic paradigm, where sense becomes intricately dependent on sensibility, and vice versa, the volume’s attitude might be said to approximate the Spinozian third kind of knowledge that intuits design (and its space of technicity) beyond mere imagination or reason. This edited volume was inspired by a virtual round table that exhibited a high degree of resonance among the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBiBAgxC5FM

Eating Architecture

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Author : Jamie Horwitz
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004

Eating Architecture written by Jamie Horwitz and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.

A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture - the preparation of meals and the production of space.

Retold Feminine Memoirs Our Collective Past And Present

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Author : Gabriela Mádlo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04

Retold Feminine Memoirs Our Collective Past And Present written by Gabriela Mádlo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Literary Criticism categories.

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. The present volume offers inter-disciplinary discussions on the interconnectedness of concepts such as evil and femininity. The authors comment on issues such as abjection, murder, gender stereotypes, revenge, menstruation and demonisation of women across cultures and historical periods.

Laughing At Architecture

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Author : Michela Rosso
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-29

Laughing At Architecture written by Michela Rosso and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with Architecture categories.

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From William Hogarth and George Cruikshank to Osbert Lancaster, Adolf Loos' satire, and Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoons of New York City, graphic and descriptive humour is shown to be an enormously fruitful, yet largely unexplored terrain of investigation for the architectural and urban historian.

Event Space

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Author : Dorita Hannah
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-11

Event Space written by Dorita Hannah and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with Performing Arts categories.

As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’. ‘Event’ was of immense significance to modernism’s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism – and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.

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