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Mapping Controversies in Architecture (Paperback)
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Mapping Controversies in Architecture (Paperback)
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The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we
conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling
into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture,
materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from
continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative
to critical architecture? Mapping controversies is a research
method and teaching philosophy that allows divides to be crossed.
It offers a new methodology for following debates surrounding
contested urban knowledge. Engaging in explorations of on-going and
recent controversies and re-visiting some well-known debates, the
analysis foregrounds, traces and maps the changing sets of
positions triggered by design: the 2012 Olympics stadium in London,
the Welsh parliament in Cardiff, the Heathrow airport runway
extension, the Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower. By mobilizing
digital technologies and new computational design techniques we are
able to visualize the variety of factors that impinge on design and
track actors' trajectories, changing groupings, concerns and
modalities of action. The book places architecture at the
intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the
general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run
between local and global, social and technical. Mapping
controversies can be extrapolated to a wide range of complex
phenomena of hybrid nature.
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