Title & Author:

Architecture is all over / edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2017]
©2017

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : The crisis of the crisis / Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter -- Unfinished state / Caitlin Berrigan -- Some thoughts on the pathology of architecture / K. Michael Hays -- Subtractive urbanism : the morphology/ideology homology / Matthew Allen and Cyrus Peñarroyo -- Design and kenosis : or, the architect's abdication / Keith Bresnahan -- Erasure urbanism / Patty Heyda -- The nebulous and the infinitesimal : a conversation / D. Graham Burnett and David Gissen -- Reimagining shrinking villages / Marta Guerra-Pastrián and Pablo Pérez-Ramos -- Less and more : on the political potential of a virtual architecture / Adrian Blackwell -- Sponge urbanism / Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh -- Contentious electronics/radical blips / Olga Touloumi -- If we wake up to find we have been too well-trained : a conversation / John Harwood and John J. May -- Landscapes, spaces, meshes : a cultural narrative of design technics / Andrew Witt -- Performance review : in praise of the possibility of architecture / Trevor Patt -- A plaza in a camp : a play in four acts / Sandi Hilal -- M. Monachus, feral urbanist / Jonathan Tate -- A taxonomy for architects / dpr-barcelona and Francesco Vedovato -- Landscaping for chimeras / Jill H. Casid.

Summary:

"Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, the history of science, media studies, and philosophy. Together these pieces probe architecture's relationship to liminal zones and immaterial systems, reframing instability and mutability as enduring qualities that form architecture's motive core--a perspectival shift that carries with it new possibilities for architectural agency and resistance. The pieces in this book range from contrarian investigations of the opportunities inherent in scarcity, bureaucracy, and banality to projections of architecture as a mediatic practice or automated process. Case studies that propose new architectural strategies are placed alongside provocative historical examples to tease out the implications of architecture's indeterminacy in agonistic ways. In each contribution, a particular facet of the discipline's apparent obsolescence or endurance becomes a way to critically evaluate the ethical and entrepreneurial dimensions of architectural practice and theory. Taken together, the pieces in this volume reinterpret architecture's "all-over-ness" as an untapped disciplinary property rather than a temporary or terminal condition"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781941332306 (paperback)
1941332307 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.

Added entries:

Choi, Esther, editor.
Trotter, Marrikka, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296190
Call No.: BIB 242600
Status: Available