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Mapping Controversies in Architecture.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (145 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781409426691
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.1/03
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Rethinking Bifurcations -- Mapping Processes -- PART I: Rethinking Bifurcations -- 1 The Impasse of Representation -- Back to Cardiff Bay -- The Limits of Symbolism -- 2 On the Boundary Between Architecture /Society -- Architecture Reflects Society ('Society → Architecture') -- Architecture Generates Society ('Architecture → Society') -- 3 Architecture/Society Reshuffled -- Critical Architecture: Today? -- The Pragmatist Alternative: Now! -- Back to Cardiff Bay: Not Society, But Making 'Social' -- PART II: Mapping Processes -- 4 Controversies in Architecture -- The Sydney Opera House: Revisited -- What is A Controversy? -- 5 Visualizing Controversies, Tracing Networks -- From a Static Object to a Splintering Cosmology: The Eiffel Tower -- Mapping Controversies as a Teaching Philosophy in Architecture -- 6 Mapping Controversies -- The London 2012 Olympic Stadium Controversy1 -- Mapping the Controversy -- Mapping: Pitfalls and Steps -- Visualizing Controversy Dynamics -- The Offerings of Post-Parametric Computation -- Seizing the Fluency of the Social -- Conclusion: The Architectural as a Type of Connector -- Not Architecture, but the Architectural -- References -- Index.
Summary: This book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture? It places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run between local and global, social and technical. Mapping controversies can be extrapolated to a wide range of complex phenomena of hybrid nature.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Rethinking Bifurcations -- Mapping Processes -- PART I: Rethinking Bifurcations -- 1 The Impasse of Representation -- Back to Cardiff Bay -- The Limits of Symbolism -- 2 On the Boundary Between Architecture /Society -- Architecture Reflects Society ('Society → Architecture') -- Architecture Generates Society ('Architecture → Society') -- 3 Architecture/Society Reshuffled -- Critical Architecture: Today? -- The Pragmatist Alternative: Now! -- Back to Cardiff Bay: Not Society, But Making 'Social' -- PART II: Mapping Processes -- 4 Controversies in Architecture -- The Sydney Opera House: Revisited -- What is A Controversy? -- 5 Visualizing Controversies, Tracing Networks -- From a Static Object to a Splintering Cosmology: The Eiffel Tower -- Mapping Controversies as a Teaching Philosophy in Architecture -- 6 Mapping Controversies -- The London 2012 Olympic Stadium Controversy1 -- Mapping the Controversy -- Mapping: Pitfalls and Steps -- Visualizing Controversy Dynamics -- The Offerings of Post-Parametric Computation -- Seizing the Fluency of the Social -- Conclusion: The Architectural as a Type of Connector -- Not Architecture, but the Architectural -- References -- Index.

This book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture? It places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run between local and global, social and technical. Mapping controversies can be extrapolated to a wide range of complex phenomena of hybrid nature.

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