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Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (Paperback)
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Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (Paperback)
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In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural
spending around the globe reached fever pitch. In both
well-established centers of capital accumulation and far--flung
locales, audacious building projects sprang up, while the
skyscraper, heretofore more commonly associated with American
capitalism, seemed as if it might pack up and relocate to Dubai and
Shanghai. Of course, much has changed in the past couple of years.
In formerly free-spending Dubai, the tallest building in the world
is now is named after the president of Abu Dhabi after he stepped
in with last--minute debt financing. In cities across the United
States, housing prices have nose-dived and cleared lots sit ready
for commercial redevelopment that likely won't take place for
another decade. Similar stories are not hard to find in many other
nations. Architecture firms that swelled in flush days are
jettisoning employees at a startling rate. In the context of
economic instability (and its attendant social and political
consequences), this edited volume brings together scholars,
critics, and architects to discuss the present state of uncertainty
in the practice and discipline of architecture. The chapters are
organized into three main areas of inquiry: economics, practice,
and technology. Within this larger framework, authors explore
issues of security, ecological design, disaster architecture, the
future of architectural practice, and the ethical obligations of
the social practice of design. In doing so, it argues that this
period has actually afforded architecture a valuable moment of
self-reflection, where alternative directions for both the theory
and practice of architecture might be explored rather than
continuing with an approach which was so nurtured by capitalist
prosperity and affluence.
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