Architecture and violence / edited by Bechir Kenzari.

Title & Author:

Architecture and violence / edited by Bechir Kenzari.

Publication:

Barcelona ; New York : Actar, [2011]

Description:

285 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The architecture of violence : Mario Sironi and the exhibition of the fascist revolution / Libero Andreotti --- Inscriptions of violence : London's landscape of commemoration / Annette Fierro -- Architecture as exquisite violence / Elie Haddad -- Towards an "architecture of cruelty" : mining the spatial speech of Antonin Artaud / Dorita Hannah -- From target to witness : architecture, satellite surveillance, human rights / Andrew Herscher -- Construction rites, mimetic rivalry, violence / Bechir Kenzari -- The topography of fear : architecture's fourth walls and inside frames / Donald Kunze -- Must architecture be defended ... the critique of violence and autoimmunity / Nadir Lahiji -- Heartless in HavenWorld[trademark] : or, The bullet-riddled armor of the suburbs / William B. Millard -- Earth & death : the architecture of Gate Pa / Sarah Treadwell.

Summary:

"In today's turbulent times few subjects deserve a closer scrutiny than the interactions between violence and constructed environment. Modernity's contradictory histories laid bare the fact that it is impossible to consider architecture simply a benign, passive victim of humanity's violent vices. Built space is as capable of incarnating violent acts as enacting them, disciplining and silencing the subject in the process. In this compelling volume, some of the most incisive thinkers of contemporary architectural theory make manifest the intricacies of interrelations between architecture and violent events. Employing a wide variety of perspectives and methodical approaches, the authors examine some of the most dramatic and unexpected instances of these vexing relations"--Back cover.

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ISBN:

9788492861736 (pbk.)
8492861738 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Violence.
Architecture et société.
violence.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Kenzari, Bechir, editor.
Kenzari, Bechir

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275176
Call No.: BIB 209187
Status: Available

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