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Lefebvre for Architects (Paperback)
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Lefebvre for Architects (Paperback)
Series: Thinkers for Architects
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Although the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the
English speaking world since the 1991 English translation of his
1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the
actual production of space, of architecture and the city, has been
less pronounced. Even if he is now widely read in schools of
architecture, planning and urban design, Lefebvre's message for
practice remains elusive; inevitably so because the entry of his
work into the consciousness of the Anglosphere has come with
repression of the two most challenging aspects of his thinking:
romanticism and utopia, which simultaneously confront modernity
while being progressive. Arguably, contemporary discomfort with
romanticism and utopia obstructs movement of Lefebvre's thinking
from being an object of theoretical interest to actually
influencing practice. Utopia is the lynchpin of Lefebvre's
enterprise. Understanding and acting upon architecture and the city
with Lefebvre but without utopia impoverishes his theoretical
construct. His ideas on practice and the methods he elaborated are
fundamentally utopian.Although utopia may seem to have no place in
the present, Lefebvre reveals this as little more than a
self-serving affirmation that 'there is no alternative' to social
and political detachment. Demanding the impossible may end in
failure but doing so is the first step towards other possibilities.
To think about Lefebvre is to think about utopia, and thinking
about utopia when thinking with Lefebvre is to make contact with
what is most enduring about his project for the city and its
inhabitants, and with what is most radical about it as well.
Lefebvre for Architects offers a concise account of the relevance
of Henri Lefebvre's writing for the theory and practice of
architecture, planning and urban design. This book is accessible
for students and practitioners who wish to fully engage with the
design possibilities offered by Lefebvre's philosophy.
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