Title & Author:

Is there an object oriented architecture? : engaging Graham Harman / edited by Joseph Bedford.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Description:

194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Architecture exchange : engagements with contemporary theory and philosophy

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is there an object-oriented architecture? / Joseph Bedford -- What objects mean for architecture / Graham Harman -- Interview : zero-form, zero-function / Graham Harman -- The Circus, the canon and a house with one wall / Adam Sharr -- Response To Adam Sharr / Graham Harman -- Interview : an extrovert and engaging discreetness / Adam Sharr -- Architecture and its objects / Lorens Holm -- Response To Lorens Holm / Graham Harman -- Interview : real objects and space / Lorens Holm -- Buildings as objects and buildings as "tool-beings" / Jonathan Hale -- Response To Jonathan Hale / Graham Harman -- Interview : in-between the broken and the unbroken / Jonathan Hale -- Non-human architectural ecologies / Peg Rawes -- Response To Peg Rawes / Graham Harman -- Interview : a feminist philosophy of relationality / Peg Rawes -- The resistance of things / Patrick Lynch -- Response To Patrick Lynch / Graham Harman -- Interview : "the tool is useful only to the man who knows how to use it" / Patrick Lynch -- Response To Peter Carl / Graham Harman -- Interview : practical wisdom, morals and ethics / Peter Carl -- Afterword / Graham Harman

Summary:

"Bringing Graham Harman's philosophy into direct confrontation with contemporary architectural theory in new and creative ways, Is There an Object-Oriented Architecture? provides a dialogue between Harman and six of the world's leading architectural thinkers, Adam Sharr, Lorens Holm, Jonathan Hale, Peg Rawes, Patrick Lynch and Peter Carl. Harman's object-oriented philosophy is one that sees the universe as a carnival of equal "objects" with no hierarchy between humans and nonhumans. In his model, unicorns, triangles, bicycles, neutrons, and humans are all things with enduring essences that outlast their partial transformations. It is a strikingly democratic vision of the universe that knocks humans off their ontological pedestal as arbiters of what is real. It also radically challenges the very precepts of architectural theory, the structure of which remains stubbornly human-centric as it seeks to give form to the human being's place at the centre of the cosmos. In this new book, each thinker develops the implications of Harman's philosophy for the future of architecture by entering into a direct exchange with the philosopher and his thinking, both questioning him and questioning with him"-- Back cover.

ISBN:

1350133450 hardcover
9781350133457 hardcover
ePDF
9781350133464
eBook
9781350133471

Subject:

Harman, Graham, 1968-
Architecture Philosophy.
Object (Philosophy)
Ontology.
Architecture Philosophie.
Objet (Philosophie)
Ontologie.
ontology (metaphysics)

Added entries:

Bedford, Joseph, editor, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewer.
Harman, Graham, 1968- writer of supplementary textual content.
Rawes, Peg, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewee.
Sharr, Adam, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewee.
Holm, Lorens, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewee.
Hale, Jonathan A., writer of supplementary textual content, interviewee.
Carl, Peter, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewee.
Bedford, Joseph editor.
Architecture exchange.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308099
Call No.: BIB 253543
Status: Available