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The first book that explains, translates and critically addresses
the relevance of Bruno Latour's ideas and methods for the field of
architecture. Introduces significant texts, decodes terms and
provides original empirical examples from architectural practice
across the world. Written by the only disciple of Bruno Latour
working in the field of architecture and a well-experienced scholar
and teacher in architecture and urban design.
The first book that explains, translates and critically addresses
the relevance of Bruno Latour's ideas and methods for the field of
architecture. Introduces significant texts, decodes terms and
provides original empirical examples from architectural practice
across the world. Written by the only disciple of Bruno Latour
working in the field of architecture and a well-experienced scholar
and teacher in architecture and urban design.
In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of
billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across
continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects
and designers began rethinking how to design cities and adapt their
practice so that we might continue to live together in the future.
Architecture after COVID is the first book to explore the
pandemic's transformative impacts upon the architectural
profession. It raises new questions about the intertwined natures
of architectural production, science, society, and spatial practice
- questions which had lain latent in the profession for years, but
which the COVID pandemic brought to the fore. The book explores how
the pandemic modified the spatial conventions of everyday life in
the city, and looks in detail at how it has transformed building
typologies. It also shows how the continuing risk of pandemics
leads us to rethink the social dimension of architecture and urban
design; and ultimately proposes a radical re-evaluation of the
conditions of architectural practice - making a compelling argument
about the changing agency of architectural design and the
importance of designers in re-ordering the post-pandemic world.
Packed with interviews and case-studies from a wide range of
contemporary design practices, Architecture after COVID will
inspire debates among architectural practitioners and theorists
alike. The broad view of the approach and the depth of the
professional issues at stake mean that this book will offer key
insights for the discipline long beyond the scope of the COVID
pandemic - as it explores the long-lasting bond between city,
science and society as the 'new normal' begins to emerge.
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.
The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of
politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.
Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and
material entities that make humans act. The book examines
cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice. Abandoning the
modernist idea of nature as being external to the human experience
- a nature that can be mastered by engineers and scientists from
outside, the cosmpolitical thinking offers designers to embark in
an active process of manipulating and reworking nature 'from
within.' To engage in cosmopolitics, this book argues, means to
redesign, create, instigate, and compose every single feature of
our common experience. In the light of this new understanding of
nature, we set the questions: What is the role of design if nature
is no longer salient enough to provide a background for human
activities? How can we foster designers' own force and make present
what causes designers to think, feel, and act? How do designers
make explicit the connection of humans to a variety of entities
with different ontology: rivers, species, particles, materials and
forces? How do they redefine political order by bringing together
stars, prions and people? In effect, how should we understand
design practice in its relation to the material and the living
world? In this volume, anthropologists, science studies scholars,
political scientists and sociologists rethink together the meaning
of cosmopolitics for design. At the same time designers, architects
and artists engage with the cosmopolitical question in trying to
imagine the future of architectural and urban design. The book
contains original empirical chapters and a number of revealing
interviews with artists and designers whose practices set examples
of 'cosmopolitically correct design'.
The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of
politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.
Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and
material entities that make humans act. The book examines
cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice. Abandoning the
modernist idea of nature as being external to the human experience
- a nature that can be mastered by engineers and scientists from
outside, the cosmpolitical thinking offers designers to embark in
an active process of manipulating and reworking nature 'from
within.' To engage in cosmopolitics, this book argues, means to
redesign, create, instigate, and compose every single feature of
our common experience. In the light of this new understanding of
nature, we set the questions: What is the role of design if nature
is no longer salient enough to provide a background for human
activities? How can we foster designers' own force and make present
what causes designers to think, feel, and act? How do designers
make explicit the connection of humans to a variety of entities
with different ontology: rivers, species, particles, materials and
forces? How do they redefine political order by bringing together
stars, prions and people? In effect, how should we understand
design practice in its relation to the material and the living
world? In this volume, anthropologists, science studies scholars,
political scientists and sociologists rethink together the meaning
of cosmopolitics for design. At the same time designers, architects
and artists engage with the cosmopolitical question in trying to
imagine the future of architectural and urban design. The book
contains original empirical chapters and a number of revealing
interviews with artists and designers whose practices set examples
of 'cosmopolitically correct design'.
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.
What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it
take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is
archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on
the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship
with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much
beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book
we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a
classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are
preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and
technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators,
librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians,
curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane
and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of
practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, Albena
Yaneva traces archiving through the daily work and care of all its
participants, scrutinizing their variable ontology, scale, and
politics. Yaneva addresses the strategies practicing architects
employ to envisage an archive-based future and tells a story about
how architectural collections are crafted so as to form the
epistemological basis of architectural history.
What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it
take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is
archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on
the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship
with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much
beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book
we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a
classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are
preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and
technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators,
librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians,
curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane
and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of
practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, Albena
Yaneva traces archiving through the daily work and care of all its
participants, scrutinizing their variable ontology, scale, and
politics. Yaneva addresses the strategies practicing architects
employ to envisage an archive-based future and tells a story about
how architectural collections are crafted so as to form the
epistemological basis of architectural history.
In 2020, the Covid pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of
billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across
continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects
and designers began rethinking how to design cities and adapt their
practice so that we might continue to live together in the future.
Architecture after Covid is the first book to explore the
pandemic's transformative impacts upon the architectural
profession. It raises new questions about the intertwined natures
of architectural production, science, society, and spatial practice
- questions which had lain latent in the profession for years, but
which the Covid pandemic brought to the fore. The book explores how
the pandemic modified the spatial conventions of everyday life in
the city, and looks in detail at how it has transformed building
typologies. It also shows how the continuing risk of pandemics
leads us to rethink the social dimension of architecture and urban
design; and ultimately proposes a radical re-evaluation of the
conditions of architectural practice - making a compelling argument
about the changing agency of architectural design and the
importance of designers in re-ordering the post-pandemic world.
Packed with interviews and case-studies from a wide range of
contemporary design practices, Architecture after Covid will
inspire debates among architectural practitioners and theorists
alike. The broad view of the approach and the depth of the
professional issues at stake mean that this book will offer key
insights for the discipline long beyond the scope of the Covid
pandemic - as it explores the long-lasting bond between city,
science and society as the 'new normal' begins to emerge.
Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative
pragmatist agenda that will inspire new thinking about the politics
of design and architectural practice. Moving beyond conventional
conversations about design and politics, the book shows how recent
developments in political philosophy can transform our
understanding of the role of the architect. It asks: how, when, and
under what circumstances can design practice generate political
relations? How can architectural design become more 'political'?
Five central chapters, which can be read alone or in sequence,
explore the answers to these questions. Powerfully pragmatic in
approach, each presents one of the 'five ways to make architecture
political', and each is illustrated by case studies from a range of
contemporary situations around the world. We see how politics
happens in architectural practice, learn how different design
technologies have political effects, and follow how architects
reach different publics, trigger reactions and affect different
communities worldwide. Combining an accessible introduction to
contemporary political concepts with a practical approach for a
more political kind of practice, this book will stimulate debate
among students and theorists alike, and inspire action in
established and start-up practices.
The New Architecture of Science explores how the architecture of
advanced nanoscience labs affects the way scientists think, conduct
experiments, interact and collaborate. The unique design of the
National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the
new generation of 21st century science laboratories. Weaving
together two tales of this building, lead scientist and one of the
designers, Kostya Novoselov, and architectural anthropologist,
Albena Yaneva, combine an analysis of its distinctive design
features with ethnographic observation of the practices of
scientists, facility managers, technicians, administrators and
house service staff. Capturing simultaneously the complex technical
infrastructure and the variability of human experiences that it
facilitates, contemporary laboratory buildings are shown to be
vital settings for the active shaping of new research habits and
ways of thinking, ultimately leading to discovery and
socio-technical innovations.Related Link(s)
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