Agency : working with uncertain architectures / edited by Florian Kossak ... [et al.]

Contributor(s):

Kossak, Florian, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critiques ; v. 5.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: xiv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780415566018 (hbk : alk. paper)
0415566010 (hbk : alk. paper)
9780415566025 (pbk : alk. paper)
0415566029 (pbk : alk. paper)
9780203860298 (ebk)
0203860292 (ebk)

Other title:

Working with uncertain architectures

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.103 22 A

LOC classification:

NA2543.S6 A39 2010

Contents:

Introduction: Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures Part 1: Intervene 1. Activism In Appalachia: Yale Architecture Students In Kentucky, 1966-1969 Richard W. Hayes 2. Environmental and Social Action in the Studio: Three Live Projects Along the Elizabeth River Phoebe Crisman 3. Secondary Agency -- Learning from Boris Groys Dana Vais 4. On Consensus, Equality, Experts and Good Design: Public Interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff An Architektur & Mathias Heyden Part 2: Sustain 5. Acting Up: Architectural Practice as Ecological Performance Karin Jaschke 6. Ethics And Aesthetics: Deleuze, Diagrams and Sustainability Stefan White 7. The Radical Potential of Architecture Richard Lister & Thomas Nemeskeri 8. Assemblage, Agency, and Ecologies of the Contemporary City Graham Livesey Part 3: Mediate 9. Against Determination, Beyond Mediation Ana Paula Baltazar & Silke Kapp 10. Agency and Automatism: Some Strategies of Irresponsibility in Architecture Michael Chapman 11. Interior Exile and Paper Architecture: A Spectrum for Architectural Dissidence Ines Weizman 12. Air Rights Helen Mallinson.

Summary: While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library B9	Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Architectural)	720.103 A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00009107

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures Part 1: Intervene 1. Activism In Appalachia: Yale Architecture Students In Kentucky, 1966-1969 Richard W. Hayes 2. Environmental and Social Action in the Studio: Three Live Projects Along the Elizabeth River Phoebe Crisman 3. Secondary Agency --
Learning from Boris Groys Dana Vais 4. On Consensus, Equality, Experts and Good Design: Public Interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff An Architektur & Mathias Heyden Part 2: Sustain 5. Acting Up: Architectural Practice as Ecological Performance Karin Jaschke 6. Ethics And Aesthetics: Deleuze, Diagrams and Sustainability Stefan White 7. The Radical Potential of Architecture Richard Lister & Thomas Nemeskeri 8. Assemblage, Agency, and Ecologies of the Contemporary City Graham Livesey Part 3: Mediate 9. Against Determination, Beyond Mediation Ana Paula Baltazar & Silke Kapp 10. Agency and Automatism: Some Strategies of Irresponsibility in Architecture Michael Chapman 11. Interior Exile and Paper Architecture: A Spectrum for Architectural Dissidence Ines Weizman 12. Air Rights Helen Mallinson.

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs

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