Ugly, useless, unstable architectures : phase spaces and generative domains / Miguel Paredes Maldonado.

Main entry:

Maldonado, Miguel Paredes, author.

Title & Author:

Ugly, useless, unstable architectures : phase spaces and generative domains / Miguel Paredes Maldonado.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
©2020

Description:

xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Ugly, Useless, Unstable traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of post-structuralism and new materialism. It investigates how their unique 'ontological regimes' can be mobilized to supersede the classical framework that still informs both the production and the evaluation of architecture. Throughout its three main chapters, this enquiry challenges one of the most prevalent tropes of architectural assessment: beauty, utility and stability. Author Miguel Paredes Maldonado critically unpacks the spatial and operational qualities of these three axioms, before setting out an alternative framework of spatial practice that draws from Gilles Deleuze's post-structuralist take on the production of the real and Manuel De Landa's model-based branch of new materialism. It reads and situates a series of spatial works through the lens of this critical methodology to contest the conceptual aspects traditionally underpinning architectural 'value'. Instead, it posits that architecture can operate as a continuous, generative spectrum encompassing a broad range of potential configurations. Written for academics and students in architectural theory, design and contemporary philosophical thought"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780367086220 hardcover
0367086220 hardcover
electronic book
9780429023415
electronic publication
9780429657504
9780429659942
Mobipocket electronic book
9780429655067

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.

Added entries:

Routledge research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307783
Call No.: BIB 253266
Status: Available

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