Architecture in the Space of Flows

ISBN-13: 9780415585415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str.

Andrew Ballantyne; Christopher Smith

Opis

Presenting a collection of exploratory ideas, this book offers an understanding of buildings, people and settlements through concepts of flow. Flows make buildings work; indeed flows make things in general work, including settlements, machines and people. We need there to be a flow of nourishment, of energy and water. Building materials flow from quarries into buildings, and they erode into dust, while materials are turned into energy, and work is turned into liquid assets. The metaphorical term 'the space of flows' was coined by the sociologist Manuel Castells. In recent years there has been a huge growth in interest in various aspects of fluidity in architecture and urban planning. This book addresses this rising topic and the interest in processes that flow across traditional boundaries from the person to the building, from the sense of self to the settlement, from economics to identity.

Recenzje

"Provides remarkable insights into how architecture can be conceptualized not in, but 'as a space of flows'.” – Erdkunde

Spis treści

1. Fluxion  Part 1: Places in Flux  2. Theoretical, Conceptual, Ethical and Methodological Stakes to Induce a New Age: M.U.D.  3. Oceanic Spaces of Flow  4. Interpretive Flow: A 1930s Trans-Cultural Architectural Nexus  5. Solar Flow: The Uses of Light in Gold Coast Living  6. Trade Flow: Architectures of Informal Markets  7. Local Flows: Rom-Hoob’s Phenomena of Transition  Part 2: Spaces of Flow  8. Controlling Flow: On the Logistics of Distributive Space  9. Temporal Flows  10. Fluid Identities: Technics of the Subject  11. Navigating Flow: Architecture of the Blogospere  12. The (Not So) Smooth Flow Between Architecture and Life  Part 3: Envoi  13. Limits of Fluxion