Main entry:

Trüby, Stephan.

Title & Author:

Exit-architecture : design between war and peace / Stephan Trüby ; with a foreword by Heiner Mühlmann and a project by Exit Ltd. ; translated from the German by Robert Payne.

Publication:

Wien ; New York : Springer, ©2008.

Description:

113 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Series:

TRACE

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-112).
1. Ex-architecture/exit-architecture: on stress, memoactivity and cultural transmission -- 2. Entry/exit : Hubris and decorum ; Shock corridors ; Paranoiac chreodology ; Hertzianism: design in the third machine age -- 3. War-/peace-architectures : Temple of Janus (Forum Romanum) ; Pentagon (Arlington, Virginia) ; Jamarat Bridge (Mina near Mecca) -- 4. 5 codes: space of conflict (Temple of Janus revisited, Washington, D.C., 2009) -- 5. Exit Ltd.: images.

Summary:

"First we shape things, then they shape us", was Churchill's view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these questions are a surprise. Through war and proximity to stress. After a tour d'horizon through Roman temples, Washington's corridors of power and Mecca's anti-panic architecture it becomes clear that architecture is anything but in the background. Instead it is situated in the hot spot of transmission dynamics and is capable of altering cultures, empires and even religions

ISBN:

9783211779699 (English edition ; pbk.)
3211779698 (English edition ; pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and society History.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Political aspects.
Architecture et société Histoire.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Aspect politique.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

TRACE (Springer (Firm))

Design between war and peace

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257476
Call No.: BIB 187973
Status: Available