Creative Practice Inquiry in Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781032004693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Ashley Mason; Adam Sharr

Opis

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture. It concerns how architects can use their distinctive skills, habits, and values to advance professional insight, and how such insights can be extended to make wider contributions to society, culture, and scholarship.

Spis treści

Openings  Introduction: creative practice inquiry in architecture  Acknowledgements  Exposition and the staging of encounter: on assessing unconventional research outputs  Inquiries  Archival practices  Situational perhapsing  Draught/draft papers  Office practices  Storying Practiceopolis  Into the void: drawing-out the default space of the suspended ceiling  Amateur adaptions  Being in-between: a multi-sited ethnography of retirement housing  Learning from Tokyo: reading architecture and urbanism through Deleuzian lenses  Between there and here: drawing an alternative future for Wenzhou  Building practices  Building, in the field  At home on site: expanding the field of architectural research  Studio practices  The Studio Apparatus  Discordant forms: seeking the transitional object in axonometric projection  Holding space in the post-digital: thinking through the Zoom studio  Machine practices  The architect’s cognitive prosthesis: a dialectical critique of Autodesk Revit  Neoliberal spectres: on creative practice and resisting instrumentality  Biomaterial probes: creative practice engagement with living systems  Biodesign research in the Anthropocene  Liquid Architecture: design in a state of flux  Decentring humanism: working with nonhumans through the process of experiment  On reflection  Out of bounds: methods and outputs of the architect-researcher  Contributors  Figures  Index