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Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to
work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse
disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media
studies, challenging the nature of textual and
representational-based research. Although numerous studies have
examined how affect emerges in architectural spaces, little
attention has been paid to the creative process of architectural
design and the role that affect plays in the many contingencies and
uncertainties that arise in the process. The book traces the
critical, philosophic, and architectural theories to examine how
affect, architecture, and practice are interlinked. Through a
series of conversations and reflections, it examines three key
contemporary architects, their practices and projects, all within a
single coherent theme. Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architecture DPC),
USA, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Australia, and Shigeru Ban
Architects, Japan, are critically studied through the lens of
different aspects of practice, namely image-making, the design
process, and the making of an everyday object/material. Through
this investigation, author Akari Nakai Kidd demonstrates how affect
theory allows a critical interrogation of the in-betweens of
practice, its liminality and limits. It questions the stability of
objects, the smooth temporality of practice, and its often
under-conceptualised non-human dimensions. More significantly, the
book demonstrates architectural practice's contribution to the
reconceptualisation of theories of affect.
Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to
work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse
disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media
studies, challenging the nature of textual and
representational-based research. Although numerous studies have
examined how affect emerges in architectural spaces, little
attention has been paid to the creative process of architectural
design and the role that affect plays in the many contingencies and
uncertainties that arise in the process. The book traces the
critical, philosophic, and architectural theories to examine how
affect, architecture, and practice are interlinked. Through a
series of conversations and reflections, it examines three key
contemporary architects, their practices and projects, all within a
single coherent theme. Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architecture DPC),
USA, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Australia, and Shigeru Ban
Architects, Japan, are critically studied through the lens of
different aspects of practice, namely image-making, the design
process, and the making of an everyday object/material. Through
this investigation, author Akari Nakai Kidd demonstrates how affect
theory allows a critical interrogation of the in-betweens of
practice, its liminality and limits. It questions the stability of
objects, the smooth temporality of practice, and its often
under-conceptualised non-human dimensions. More significantly, the
book demonstrates architectural practice's contribution to the
reconceptualisation of theories of affect.
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