UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC465302
Format:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203860298
Series Statement:
Critiques Series
Content:
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 agency, in particular the role of architectural research as an agency of transformation, the chapters here explore how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs, possibilities and capacities for action
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration credits -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Agency: Working with uncertain architectures -- Intervene -- Activism in Appalachia: Yale architecture students in Kentucky, 1966-69 -- Environmental and social action in the studio: Three live projects along the Elizabeth River -- Secondary agency: Learning from Boris Groys -- On consensus, equality, experts and good design: An interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff -- Sustain -- Acting up: Architectural practice as ecological performance -- Ethics and aesthetics: Deleuze, diagrams and sustainability -- The radical potential of architecture -- Agency, assemblages and ecologies of the contemporary city -- Mediate -- Against determination, beyond mediation -- Agency and automatism: Some strategies of irresponsibility in architecture -- Interior exile and paper architecture: A spectrum for architectural dissidence -- 'Air rights' -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Kossak, Florian Agency Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 ISBN 9780415566018
Language:
English
Keywords:
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