
Architecture Post Mortem
The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-1-4094-6222-4 (ISBN)
Description
Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment wherein architecture's symbolic contract with capital is put on stage, naked to all. Architecture is not irrelevant to fiscal and political contagion as is commonly believed; it is the victim and penetrating analytical agent of the current crisis. As the very apparatus for modernity's guilt and unfulfilled drives-modernity's debt-architecture is that ideological element that functions as a master signifier of its own destruction, ordering all other signifiers and modes of signification beneath it. It is under these conditions that architecture theory has retreated to an 'Alamo' of history, a final desert outpost where history has been asked to transcend itself. For architecture's hoped-for utopia always involves an apocalypse. This timely collection of essays reformulates architecture's relation to modernity via the operational death-drive: architecture is but a passage between life and death. This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf, David Bertolini, Simone Brott, Peggy Deamer, Didem Ekici, Paul Emmons, Donald Kunze, Todd McGowan, Gevork Hartoonian, Nadir Lahiji, Erika Naginski, and Dennis Maher.
Reviews / Votes
Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2013 'In the wake of global financial cataclysm and impending ecological catastrophe, architecture's role within the reproduction of contemporary capitalist relations has assumed a new urgency today. Collecting together a sparkling and adventurous series of essays, Architecture Post Mortem explores architecture's current confrontations with ruin, apocalypse and survival, in ways that provoke new political and theoretical questions at every turn.' David Cunningham, University of Westminster, UK 'This collection of essays tracks the interaction of architecture's literal and metaphorical deaths, says Jon Astbury ... there are some standout pieces, Simone Brott's Dead or Alive in Joburg? unpicks the 2009 film District 9 to reveal its parallels with South Africa's urban realities and, consequently, the concept of violent urbanism'. Building Design OnlineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4094-6222-4 (9781409462224)
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Donald Kunze | David Bertolini | Simone Brott
Architecture Post Mortem
The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
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Donald Kunze | David Bertolini | Simone Brott
Architecture Post Mortem
The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
E-Book
04/2016
Routledge
€69.99
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Donald Kunze | David Bertolini | Simone Brott
Architecture Post Mortem
The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
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Persons
Edited by Kunze, Donald; Bertolini, David; Brott, Simone
Content
Introduction, DonaldKunze; Chapter 1 Driven into the Public: The Psychic Constitution of Space, ToddMcGowan; Chapter 2 Dead or Alive in Joburg, SimoneBrott; Chapter 3 Building In-Between the Two Deaths A Post Mortem Manifesto, NadirLahiji; Chapter 4 Kant, Sade, Ethics and Architecture, DavidBertolini; Chapter 5 Post Mortem: Building Destruction, Kazi KAshraf; Chapter 6 The Slow-Fast Architecture of Love in the Ruins, DonaldKunze; Chapter 7 Progress: Re-Building the Ruins of Architecture, GevorkHartoonian; Chapter 8, PeggyDeamer; Chapter 9 A Window to the Soul: Depth in Early Modern Section Drawing, PaulEmmons; Chapter 10, ErikaNaginski; Chapter 11 Architectural Asceticism and Austerity, DidemEkici; Chapter 12 900 Miles to Paradise, and Other Afterlives of Architecture, DennisMaher;