Main entry:

AHRA Annual International Conference (9th : 2012 : London Metropolitan University)

Title & Author:

Architecture and the paradox of dissidence / edited by Ines Weizman.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Description:

xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ; volume 9

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Architecture and the paradox of dissidence -- Part I. Dissidence through architecture : The turning point in 1978: architects of the Tallinn School and their late socialist public / Andres Kurg -- Bogdan Bogdanović: dissident in life, architecture and writing / Gordana Korolija Fontana-Giusti -- A difficult person for socialism: Elemér Zalotay and his strip building / Mariann Simon and Peter Haba -- Part II. Pedagogy as site of dissent : Playing in the time of normalisation: SIAL's Školka experiment and architectural dissidence / Ana Miljački -- Designing dissent: Vilanova Artigas and the São Paulo School of Architecture / Ana María León -- Radical remoteness: the HfG Ulm as institution of dissidence / Anna-Maria Meister -- Interview with Senan Abdelqader / Ines and Eyal Weizman -- Part III. Possible geographies of architecture: between dissidence and activism : Antigone's dissident dustings: coatings, revolutions and the circularity of dust / Teresa Stoppani -- Gestures of refusal in the margins of New Babylon / Jérémie Michael McGowan -- Translocal transmedia citizenship / Brett Snyder -- Mapping the sea: thalassopolitics and disobedient spatial practices / Lorenzo Pezzani -- Part IV. Dissident ecologies : Weather dissidents: from natura naturans to `space' and back again / Helen Mallinson -- Dissident water: the political life of rising acid mine water / Lindsay Bremner -- Earthly poison: arsenic in the Bengal delta / Nabil Ahmed -- The third degree: interrogating the scale of climate conflict / Adrian Lahoud.

Summary:

"Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence reflects on the relevance of the concept of dissidence for architectural practice today. Although dissidence has been primarily associated with architectural practices in the Eastern Bloc at the end of the Cold War period, contemporary architecture has in recent years developed a host of new methodologies and techniques for articulating its distance from, and critique of, dominant political and financial structures. This book maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dissent within the architectural field. It expands the notion of dissidence to other similar practices and strategies of resistance, in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. It discusses how the gestures and techniques of past struggles, as well as 'dilemmas' of working in politically suppressive regimes, can help to inform those of today. This collection of essays from expert scholars demonstrates the multiple responses to this subject, the potential and dangers of dissidence, and thus constructs a robust lexicon of concepts that will point to possible ways forward for politically and theoretically committed architects and practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780415714082 (hardback)
0415714087 (hardback)
9780415714099 (pb)
0415714095 (pb)
1317700988
9781317700982
9781306414647
1306414644

Subject:

Architecture and society Congresses.
Architecture Political aspects Congresses.
Architecture et société Congrès.
Architecture Aspect politique Congrès.
ARCHITECTURE General.
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE History General.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Political aspects.
Architektur
Protest

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Interviews.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Weizman, Ines, editor.
Critiques ; v. 9.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285290
Call No.: BIB 224696
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available