Virilio for Architects

ISBN-13: 9780415819022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 144 str.

John Armitage

Opis

Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including:

• Oblique Architecture and Bunker Archeology
• Critical Space and the Overexposed City
• The Ultracity and Very High Buildings
• Grey Ecology and Global Hypermovement

In exploring Virilio's most important architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi. Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas.

Recenzje

'An exciting ride on the Virilian rollercoaster, where even concrete bunkers (almost) 'melt into air'. This book marks an important advance - written by someone who, like Virilio himself, is sensitive to both the aesthetic and the ethical implications of his work.' - Jonathan Hale, Reader in Architectural Theory, University of Nottingham, UK

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface  List of Illustrations  Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  Virilio’s Architectural Career  2. Analysing the Oblique  Post-Second World War French Architecture, the École des Beaux-Arts, and Architecture Principe  ‘Manhattan Out’  ‘The Oblique Function’  The Oblique Church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, Nevers  Analysing the Oblique: Bunker Archeology  3. Critical Space  On the Origins of Virilio’s Conception of Critical Space  The Overexposed City  The Interface of Virtual Space  The Contamination of Real Space by Virtual Space  The Struggle to Redefine the Unity of Time and Place in the Overexposed City  Recombining the Real Space/Virtual Space Divide  The Sudden Confusion between Reception and Perception, or the Transformation of Matter into Light  Virilio: Architectural Theory and Practice  4. The Big Night: Into the Ultracity  The Big Night  The Unknown Quantity: Farewell to the Milky Way  From Urban Stasis to Urban Escape  Into ‘The Ultracity’: Anti-Ecological and Escapist Strategies in the City of Extremes  Motorized and Accelerated Temporalities: The Mutation of Technical Progress  Very High Buildings or Exurbanism at Altitude  5. Bernard Tschumi, Grey Ecology, and the Cities of the Beyond  Tschumism  Grey Ecology  Critical and Hypercritical Space  Global Hypermovement  Hyper-World Space or the Revolution of the Hyperevent  In the Cities of the Beyond  Thinking Differently: Grey Ecology and the Question Concerning the Contemporary World-City  Further Reading  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is the author and editor of numerous books on the work of Paul Virilio including Virilio and the Media and The Virilio Dictionary.