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245 0 0 _aAgency :
_bworking with uncertain architectures /
_cedited by Florian Kossak ... [et al.]
246 3 0 _aWorking with uncertain architectures.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2010.
300 _axiv, 177 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
490 1 _aCritiques ;
_vv. 5.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _aWhile 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
650 0 _aArchitecture and society
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aArchitecture and society
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aArchitectural practice
_xSocial aspects.
700 1 _aKossak, Florian,
_d1967-
830 0 _aCritiques ;
_vv. 5.
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