Architecture after Covid

ISBN-13: 9781350271067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str.

Albena Yaneva

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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The return of Dr Rieux Responses to the pandemic ‘Distant’ as a new form of knowledge Architecture after Covid Chapter 1: A ‘parasite’ in the city Occupying space Architecture and illness Virus, lab, city The laboratorization of space Chapter 2: The laboratorization of urban space Deserted cities, empty buildings Counting bodies Spacing, distancing Contactless lives Sanitizing, face covering The new ‘modulor’ Pandemic pictograms De-centring the disease The power of entrapment Urban metamorphosis: the new technologies of containment and visibility Chapter 3: Pandemic variations of design practice Routines: the ‘magic’ of the office space Slowing down: the return to the verbal, the written and the sketch Stepping aside and speeding up: technological developments New compositions: re-connecting with the ‘others’ New variants of practice Conclusion: Architectural research extended to things Historicity and virus New reflexivity, new methods Bibliography Index