Ecologies of Architecture
Essays on Territorialisation
Published on 17. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-4744-8302-5 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published over the last decade, to show that when a society manipulates its matter it is not a reflection of culture; it is culture. To speak of ecologies of architecture is to break with judgement for experience. As Gilles Deleuze put it in his book on Nietzsche, it is not about justification, 'but a different way of feeling: another sensibility'. If to think differently we have to feel differently, then the design of the built environment has no other purpose but to transform us. While engineering is solution-oriented, architecture stays with the problem so as to tease out a creative potential.
Reviews / Votes
Andrej Radman is one of the most insightful and interesting architectural theorists now at work. He is refreshingly meticulous in his treatment of architectural theory and Continental philosophy, and this collection of Radman's most important essays on theory from the past few years, is a significant and very welcome contribution to the domain of architectural theory. * Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
4 black and white illustrations, 9 black and white tables, 2 black and white line art
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8302-5 (9781474483025)
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Persons
Andrej Radman is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. He is a licensed and award-winning architect and has contributed to numerous academic publications including Deleuze and Architecture (EUP, 2013). He is co-editor of Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy (EUP, 2017). Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).
Content
Preface: Transversality at Work by Rosi Braidotti
Introduction: Under the Pixels, the Beach!
Figure, Discourse: To the Abstract Concretely
Architecture's Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity
Northern Line
Sensibility is Ground Zero: On Inclusive Disjunction and Politics of Defatalisation
Architecture of Immanence
The Impredicative City: Or What Can a Boston Square Do?
Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After; It Is Good Only When It Comes After
Zigzagging: Bound by the Absence of a Tie
3D Perception ? 2D Image + 1D Inference: Or Why a Single Precise Shot Would Often Miss the Target, whereas a Series of Imprecise Shots Will Eventually Lead to a Hit
Double Bind: On Material Ethics
Involutionary Architecture: Unyoking Coherence from Congruence
BibliographyIndex
Introduction: Under the Pixels, the Beach!
Figure, Discourse: To the Abstract Concretely
Architecture's Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity
Northern Line
Sensibility is Ground Zero: On Inclusive Disjunction and Politics of Defatalisation
Architecture of Immanence
The Impredicative City: Or What Can a Boston Square Do?
Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After; It Is Good Only When It Comes After
Zigzagging: Bound by the Absence of a Tie
3D Perception ? 2D Image + 1D Inference: Or Why a Single Precise Shot Would Often Miss the Target, whereas a Series of Imprecise Shots Will Eventually Lead to a Hit
Double Bind: On Material Ethics
Involutionary Architecture: Unyoking Coherence from Congruence
BibliographyIndex