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Power/Architecture (Paperback)
Pedro Bandeira, Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Carvalho
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how
contemporary society and archi- tecture work together. Since power
lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence, and instrumentalization
capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of
the architectural forms and toa set of external powers represented
through architecture. The presented series of projects based on
current and extreme syntheses of comprehensive and complex
world-views enables mappinga network of powers that align,
intersect, in ect, and diverge from each other: collective power,
ordaining power, economic power, technological power, ritual power,
cultural power, media power, and domestic power. The issue of
counter power is then discussed against this background.Through
eight essays by contributors, along with images, drawings, and
documents, the book renders visible a set of entities, informal
conventions, stakeholders, and means involved in the creation of
architecture; that is, the dynamics of the collective that
ceaselessly tests the architectural composition of the common
world.
Of the around 20 biennials and triennials worldwide devoted to
architecture, the Venice Architecture Biennale is the most
prominent, considered as the world's leading biannual architecture
festival. The participating architects selected every second year
come from around the world to engage in the most important
information exchange in the world of architecture. Aires Mateus
Architects is the architectural practice operated by two brothers,
Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus. They have been invited five
times to participate in Venice. This publication will introduce the
five architectural installations they contributed to the biennales
in the last decade. The publication consists of five individual
parts, each of them a separate book, and held together by a
French-fold-dustjacket. Each book is dedicated to one exhibition in
Venice. The beautiful projects presented in this volume set an
outstanding example of architectural installations reflecting space
in a sensitive, poetic and mathematical way. Over the last three
decades, Aires Mateus have gained international recognition for
their contemporary reinterpretation of architectural traditions in
Portugal. Their work is poetic in nature, and much of it is based
on constant exploration and experimentation. Their abstract
architectural installations are the artistic manifestation of this
work. Every installation will be introduced with a short essay,
especially written for this publication by philosophers,
architects, and an art critic. With contributions by Francisco and
Manuel Aires Mateus, Ricardo Carvalho, Nuno Crespo, Sofia Pinto
Basto, Paulo Pires do Vale, and Delfim Sardo.
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