Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation

ISBN-13: 9781474483025 / Angielski

Andrej Radman; Rosi Braidotti

Opis

Interprets architecture theory through the lens of Continental philosophyDrawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published over the last decade, to show that when a society manipulates its matter it is not a reflection of culture; it is culture. To speak of ecologies of architecture is to break with judgement for experience. As Gilles Deleuze put it in his book on Nietzsche, it is not about justification, 'but a different way of feeling: another sensibility'. If to think differently we have to feel differently, then the design of the built environment has no other purpose but to transform us. While engineering is solution-oriented, architecture stays with the problem so as to tease out a creative potential.

Spis treści

Preface: Transversality at Work by Rosi Braidotti; Introduction: Under the Pixels, the Beach!; 1. Figure, Discourse: To the Abstract Concretely; 2. Architecture’s Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity; 3. Northern Line; 4. Sensibility is Ground Zero: On Inclusive Disjunction and Politics of Defatalisation; 5. Architecture of Immanence; 6. The Impredicative City: Or What Can a Boston Square Do?; 7. Space Always Comes After: It is good when it comes after; it is good only when it comes after; 8. Zigzagging: Bound by the Absence of a Tie; 9. 3D Perception ? 2D Image + 1D Inference: Or Why a Single Precise Shot Would Often Miss the Target, whereas a Series of Imprecise Shots Will Eventually Lead to a Hit; 10. Double Bind: On Material Ethics; 11. Involutionary Architecture: Unyoking Coherence from Congruence; Bibliography; Index.