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Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous
theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment.
Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon-the
primitive hut-and a common concern with both routine needs and
ceremonial behaviours. Both could lay strong claims to a special
knowledge of the everyday. And yet, in the 20th century,
notwithstanding genre classics such as Bernard Rudofsky's
Architecture without Architects or Paul Oliver's Shelter, and
various attempts to make architecture anthropocentric (such as
Corbusier's Modulor), disciplinary exchanges between architecture
and anthropology were often disappointingly slight. This book
attempts to locate the various points of departure that might be
taken in a contemporary discussion between architecture and
anthropology. The results are radical: post-colonial theory is here
counterpoised to 19th-century theories of primitivism, archaeology
is set against dentistry, fieldwork is juxtaposed against
indigenous critique, and climate science is applied to questions of
shelter. This publication will be of interest to both architects
and anthropologists. The chapters in this book were originally
published within two special issues of Architectural Theory Review.
Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous
theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment.
Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon-the
primitive hut-and a common concern with both routine needs and
ceremonial behaviours. Both could lay strong claims to a special
knowledge of the everyday. And yet, in the 20th century,
notwithstanding genre classics such as Bernard Rudofsky's
Architecture without Architects or Paul Oliver's Shelter, and
various attempts to make architecture anthropocentric (such as
Corbusier's Modulor), disciplinary exchanges between architecture
and anthropology were often disappointingly slight. This book
attempts to locate the various points of departure that might be
taken in a contemporary discussion between architecture and
anthropology. The results are radical: post-colonial theory is here
counterpoised to 19th-century theories of primitivism, archaeology
is set against dentistry, fieldwork is juxtaposed against
indigenous critique, and climate science is applied to questions of
shelter. This publication will be of interest to both architects
and anthropologists. The chapters in this book were originally
published within two special issues of Architectural Theory Review.
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Cabinet 56: Sports (Paperback)
Sina Najafi; Text written by Augusto Corriere, Leland Durantaye, Hal Foster, Adam Jasper, …
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Staging Disorder (Paperback)
Christopher Stewart, Esther Teichmann; Contributions by David Campany, Howard Caygill, Jennifer Good, …
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R682
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The concept of 'staging disorder' looks not to how photographers
have staged disordered reality themselves, but rather to how these
artists have recognised and responded to a phenomenon of staging
that already exists in the world. Military simulations of rooms,
houses, planes, streets and whole fake towns in different parts of
the globe provoke a series of questions concerning the nature of
truth as it manifests itself in current photographic practice,
drawing from Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin's Chicago, 2007;
Claudio Hils' Red Land Blue Land, 2000; Richard Mosse's Airside,
2007; Sarah Pickering's Public Order, 2002 - 2005; and Christopher
Stewarts' Kill House, 2005. In highlighting the resonance that
these five projects have with one another, the publication develops
a thesis on contemporary photography at a point when we are
currently witnessing a shift away from a critical discourse that
has been preoccupied by theoretical concerns related to artifice
and illusion. Staging Disorder sits alongside an exhibition and
symposium curated by Christopher Stewart (Associate Professor in
Photography, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Built Environment,
University of Technology Sydney) and Dr Esther Teichmann (Senior
Lecturer in Photography, LCC, UAL). The exhibition will be held in
the galleries of the London College of Communication and will run
from January to March 2015, with a symposium taking place in late
January.
240cm is the standard distance between floor and ceiling in
residential buildings: the height of the void we inhabit. In its
precision, and its emptiness, the number reflects contemporary
interior architecture's condition. In a series of essays, House
Tour explores an interior that is both familiar and seemingly
uninhabited, critically celebrating a peculiar genre of
representation, the architectural photography of an unfurnished
interior. The authors - including anthropologists, architecture
theorists and art historians - consider the ubiquitous contemporary
apartment from an eye-level view, foregrounding the appearance and
material presence of the architectural shell. They start out from
photographs of unfurnished interiors found on the websites of
leading Swiss architecture firms. They have a blank, labyrinthine
appearance, with walls intersecting at oblique angles and exits
seemingly leading nowhere, and show featureless rooms with seamless
transitions between surfaces. House Tour offers answers to the
quest for a new language that adequately describes this
architecture.
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