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Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture Praxis Reloaded

Name: Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture
Author: Gevork Hartoonian

Auteur: Gevork Hartoonian

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Gevork Hartoonian

Engels
Hardcover
9781472438133
03 november 2015
229 pagina's

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Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars, this volume investigates and critically addresses various dimensions of the present crisis of architecture.

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the architect’s role in the design and production processes of architecture. Moreover, critical architectural theories, including those of Breton, Heidegger and Benjamin, which explored the concepts of technology, modernism, labour and capital and how technology informed the cultural, along with later theories from the 1960s, which focused more on the architect’s theorization of his/her own design strategies, seem increasingly irrelevant. In an age of digital reproduction and commodification, these theoretical approaches need to be reassessed. Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Peggy Deamer, Bernard Tschumi, Donald Kunze and Marco Biraghi, this volume investigates and critically addresses various dimensions of the present crisis of architecture. It poses questions such as: Is architecture a conservative cultural product servicing a given producer/consumer system? Should architecture’s affiliative ties with capitalism be subjected to a measure of criticism that can be expanded to the entirety of the cultural realm? Is architecture’s infusion into the cultural the reason for the visibility of architecture today? What room does the city leave for architecture beyond the present delirium of spectacle? Should the thematic of various New Left criticisms of capitalism be taken as the premise of architectural criticism? Or alternatively, putting the notion of criticality aside is it enough to confine criticism to the production of insightful and pleasurable texts?

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 november 2015
Aantal pagina's: 229
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Hoofdauteur: Gevork Hartoonian
Hoofdredacteur: Dr Gevork Hartoonian
Hoofduitgeverij: Ashgate Pub Co

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Product breedte: 184 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 260 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 174 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 246 mm
Verpakking lengte: 246 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 680 g

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Categorieën: Kunst & Fotografie

Architectuur

Architectuurtheorie

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 2000-heden

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