Exit-Architecture. Design Between War and Peace : With a Foreword by Heiner Mühlmann and a Project by Exit Ltd.

ISBN-13: 9783990431856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 113 str.

Stephan Truby

Opis

"First we shape things, then they shape us," was Churchill's view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these questions are a surprise in this diverting manifesto.

Spis treści

Heiner Mühlmann: Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- Ex-Architecture/Exit-Architecture: On Stress, Memoactivity and Cultural Transmission.- Entry/Exit: Hubris and decorum; Shock Corridors; Paranoiac Chreodology; Hertzianism: Design in the Third Machine Age.- War-/Peace-Architectures: Temple of Janus (Forum Romanum); Pentagon (Arlington, Virginia); Jamarat Bridge (Mina near Mekka).- 5 Codes: Space of Conflict (Temple of Janus Revisited, Washington D.C., 2009).- Exit Ltd.: Images.- Bibliography.- Picture Credits.- About the Author.

O autorze

Stephan Trüby. Architect, theoretician and curator. Studied architecture at the AA School, London where he also lectured. Since 2001 he has been assistant professor for architectural theory and design at the Institut Grundlagen moderner Architektur, at the University of Stuttgart. He is the director of Exit Ltd. a firm specialized in architectural and design consulting. His numerous works have been published as books and in magazines.