An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138606654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Nadir Lahiji

Opis

This manifesto is both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and a timely response to the conditions of architecture today.

Spis treści

1. Architecture, The ‘Restoration’, and This Manifesto.  2. Facing the Twentieth Century.  3. In Praise of the Failed Project.  4. Nihilism.  5. Nietzsche and the Architect.  6. Architectonics.  7. Universality of Reason.  8. Building and Aufhebung.  9. One Divides into Two.  10. End of Utopias.  11. The Emancipatory Hypothesis.  12. Universality and the Ethical Life of Building. 

O autorze

Nadir Lahiji is an architect and critical theorist. His recent books include Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy (2016); the co-authored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City (Routledge, 2017); the edited volume Can Architecture Be An Emancipatory Project? Dialogues on Architecture and the Left (2016); and the edited collection The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture (2014).