Main entry:

Jaque, Andrés, 1971- author. aut

Title & Author:

Superpowers of scale / Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University, [2020]
[New York, New York] : Distributed by Columbia University Press.
©2020

Description:

495 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
Front and back of printed paper wrapper have cut-out holes, with views to fragments of illustrations on inside of wrapper flaps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(from table of contents) Preface / Keller Easterling -- Introduction / Andrés Jaque -- Superpowers of ten -- Powers and superpowers of ten--an exchange with / Beatriz Colomina -- Phantom : Mies as rendered society -- Twelve actions to make Peter Eisenman transparent -- Politics do not happen in squares -- IKEA disobedients -- Sales oddity : Milano 2 and the politics of direct-to-home TV urbanism -- Jacuzzi riots -- Pornified homes -- Intimate strangers -- The biopolitics of architecture : an exchange with / Paul B. Preciado -- Sex and the so-called city.

Summary:

The objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material-they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies (whether political, social, or environmental) in equally complex ways. Exploring these forms of architectural agency has in recent years been a central aspect of the work of Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation, who, in addition to their built works, pursue a research practice through the many other media of architectural production. Their projects are reactive, intervening on what already exists to demonstrate how design, politics, and criticality operate across different scales and at the intersection of multiple realities. Jaque's performances, videos, and installations--and this book, which collects a range of recent research projects--bring new subjects into the fold of architecture, focusing on alternative actors, distributions of power and representation, and the sociocultural effects of architecture. These episodes address ideas like genetic manipulation, the necessary requeering of dequeered spaces of online interaction, and the selling of modern architectural comforts in order to subvert the field from within and to contest capitalism's flattening-out of public life. Rather than propose alternative-from-scratch futuristic or idealized realities, Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation claim that reality is produced at the intersection of things like porn, interior design, maintenance, and the territorial distribution of toxicity. Documenting a series of performances, research projects, installations, films, characters, and exhibitions, 'Superpowers of Scale' demonstrates the breadth of architectural knowledge and its possible representations.

ISBN:

9781941332573 (paperback)
1941332579 (paperback)

Subject:

Jaque, Andrés, 1971-
Office for Political Innovation (Firm)
Powers of ten--a film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero (Motion picture)
Architecture and society History 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Art and architecture Pictorial works.
Culture jamming.
Architecture et société Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Art et architecture Ouvrages illustrés.
Brouillage culturel.
Art and architecture
Architecture and society
Architecture, Modern

Form/genre:

Pictorial works
History

Added entries:

Colomina, Beatriz, contributor.
Preciado, Paul B., contributor.
Office for Political Innovation (Firm), author.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306610
Call No.: BIB 252162
Status: Available