Title & Author:

Space reader : heterogeneous space in architecture / edited by Michael Hensel, Christopher Hight, Achim Menges.

Publication:

Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2009.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.

Series:

AD reader

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.
En route : towards a discourse on heterogeneous space beyond modernist space--time and post-modernist social geography / Christopher Hight, Michael Hensel and Achim Menges -- Questions of space / Bernard Tschumi -- The smooth and the striated : the mathematical model / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- Mass absence / Albert Pope -- Figures, doors and passages / Robin Evans -- Towards a new architecture / Jeffrey Kipnis -- From object to field : field conditions in architecture and urbanism / Stan Allen -- An introduction to Umwelt / Jakob von Uexküll -- Environmental management / Reyner Banham -- Putting out the fire with gasoline : parables of entropy and homeostasis from the second machine age to the information age / Christopher Hight -- Atmospheric politics / Peter Sloterdijk -- The inside of space : some issues concerning heterogeneity, the interior and the weather / Charles Rice -- The heterogeneous space of morpho-ecologies / Michael Hensel and Achim Menges.

Summary:

"The Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a definition of space that is heterogeneous (an object or system consisting of a diverse range of different items). An example of heterogeneous space, for instance, is Manhattan where complex and multiple social and technological conditions are overlaid. (This is to be contrasted with highly centralised and ordered Modernist cities.) With the onset of globalisation and the Web, heterogeneneous space, with its emphasis on differentiation, is more relevant to the contemporary condition, which encourages the mixing of space, than a much more static conception of Modernist space. This book foregrounds spatial issues and the potential of heterogeneous space through a threefold strategy: 1) Its compilation of seminal essays on the discourse of heterogeneous space. These are to include previously published key texts by Reyner Banham, Andrew Benjamin, Robin Evans, Jeff Kipnis and Henri Lefebvre, as well as new texts by important contemporary commentators, such as Mark Cousins, Werner Durth and Anthony Vidler. 2) By commenting on these seminal texts and drawing links between them. 3) By distilling from the first two efforts a contemporary outlook on a discourse of heterogeneous space that is of future significance."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780470519424 (hbk.)
0470519428 (hbk.)
0470519436 (pbk.)
9780470519431 (pbk.)

Subject:

Raum
Space (Architecture)
City planning Philosophy.
Architecture and society.
Espace (Architecture)
Architecture et société.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Hensel, Michael.
Menges, Achim.
Hight, Christopher.
AD reader.

Heterogeneous space in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262783
Call No.: BIB 193912
Status: Available