The New Urban Condition: Criticism and Theory from Architecture and Urbanism

ISBN-13: 9780367607609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 298 str.

Leandro Medrano; Luiz Recamán; Tom Avermaete

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Demonstrating the need for new critical urban and architectural thinking that engages with the challenges and processes of the contemporary urban condition, this volume will be a thought-provoking read for academics and students in architecture, urban design, geography, political science and more.

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Introduction Leandro Medrano, Luiz Recaman, and Tom Avermaete  Part I: Theoretical Tenets  1. Remains of Architectural Reason Luiz Recaman  2. On Architecture and Urban Space After the Ideological Crisis of Neoliberalism Leandro Medrano  3. Constructing the Commons: Towards another Architectural Theory of the City? Tom Avermaete  4. Erving Goffman’s Sociology of Physical Space for Architects and Urban Designers Fraya Frehse  5. Broken Windows, Revisited Reinhold Martin  6. Architecture and Critical Project Sven-Olov Wallenstein  7. Ruins of the Future Otília Arantes  Part II: Rethinking Spatial Rhythms  8. Henri Lefebvre and the Morphology of a Spatial Dialectic César Simoni Santos  9. Anthropophagic Phenomenology: Encounters at Lina Bo’s SESC Pompeia Cultural and Leisure Center Natalia Escobar Castrillón  10. Incremental Housing: A Short History of an Idea Nelson Mota  11. The Bubble, the Arrow, and the Area: Urban Design and Diagrammatic Concepts of Human Action Daniel Koch  Part III: Contemporary Spatial Forms of the City  12. The Subaltern City: Revisiting the Materialist Critique of Urban Form Marta Caldeira  13. The Chronicles of Neo Janina Gosseye  14. The Legitimized Reproduction of a Corporate Typology: Dispositions of Architectural Form in the LEED® Rating System Raphael Grazziano  15. What Ever Happened to Social Housing? Sergio Martín Blas  16. Five Fronts for One Single Position: Critical Strategies for Contemporary Pedagogy in the Subject of Architectural Design Carmen Espegel Alonso and Daniel Movilla Vega  Index