Architectures of Life and Death
The ECO-Aesthetics of the Built Environment
1st Edition
Published on 17. June 2021
250 pages
978-1-5381-4753-5 (ISBN)
Description
Driven by the Foucauldian attitude of subsuming architectural history into a genealogy of techne, Architectures of Life and Death advances a transdisciplinary approach rethinking subjectivity and exploring the political ramifications of these processes for the discipline of architecture and beyond. In contrast to mainstream approaches, architecture will not be seen as representative of culture, but as the mechanism of culture, the 'collective equipment' that rests on the reciprocal determination of social habits and technological habitats. In this sense, the idea that we shape our environments, therefore they shape us, is not to be taken as a metaphor. The animate has always been utterly dependent on the inanimate. A livable habitat is one which the inhabitant actively co-evolves with and which does not constitute a ready-made condition to which the inhabitant would simply have to passively adapt.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
29 b/w illustrations;
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-4753-5 (9781538147535)
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Andrej Radman | Stavros Kousoulas
Architectures of Life and Death
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06/2021
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Persons
Andrej Radman is assistant professor of architecture and has been teaching theory courses and design studios at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment since 2004. Radman is a production editor and member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint. He is also a licensed architect with a portfolio of built and competition-winning projects. His latest publication, coedited with Heidi Sohn, is Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy.
Stavros Kousoulas studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. Since 2012, as a researcher and lecturer, he has been part of the Theory Section of the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d' Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint journal of architecture theory since 2014.
Stavros Kousoulas studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. Since 2012, as a researcher and lecturer, he has been part of the Theory Section of the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d' Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint journal of architecture theory since 2014.
Content
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: METAMODELLING
1. Introduction: Pings and Hups, Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas
2. Ecologies of Fear and Desire, Andrew Ballantyne
3. From Architecture Lifeless to Architecture Alive, Gökhan Kodalak
INTERMEZZO 1: PRIMING
An Index of Affective Mechanisms: Deciphering the Pre-Subjective Power of Spatial Assemblages, Panagiotis Roupas and Yota Passia
PART TWO: ASIGNIFYING SEMIOTICS
4. Reversed Encounters: Initial Findings on Japan-ness in Arakawa and Gins, Renske Maria van Dam
5. A Cartography of Discourses on Architectures of Life and/or Death, Robert A. Gorny
6. Lilacs Out of the Dead Land, Antonio Paoletti
INTERMEZZO 2: PRIMACY OF ACTION
Grasping Ma, Renske Maria van Dam
PART THREE: PEDAGOGY OF SENSES
7. The Garden of Sisyphus: A Design Proposal for the First (Public) Crematorium in Greece, Stavros Mouzakitis
8. Towards a Playful Architecture: Crisis, Sense-Making and Questions Concerning Method, Dulmini Perera
9. Radically Alive: A Disappearing Mining Town at Eur
PART ONE: METAMODELLING
1. Introduction: Pings and Hups, Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas
2. Ecologies of Fear and Desire, Andrew Ballantyne
3. From Architecture Lifeless to Architecture Alive, Gökhan Kodalak
INTERMEZZO 1: PRIMING
An Index of Affective Mechanisms: Deciphering the Pre-Subjective Power of Spatial Assemblages, Panagiotis Roupas and Yota Passia
PART TWO: ASIGNIFYING SEMIOTICS
4. Reversed Encounters: Initial Findings on Japan-ness in Arakawa and Gins, Renske Maria van Dam
5. A Cartography of Discourses on Architectures of Life and/or Death, Robert A. Gorny
6. Lilacs Out of the Dead Land, Antonio Paoletti
INTERMEZZO 2: PRIMACY OF ACTION
Grasping Ma, Renske Maria van Dam
PART THREE: PEDAGOGY OF SENSES
7. The Garden of Sisyphus: A Design Proposal for the First (Public) Crematorium in Greece, Stavros Mouzakitis
8. Towards a Playful Architecture: Crisis, Sense-Making and Questions Concerning Method, Dulmini Perera
9. Radically Alive: A Disappearing Mining Town at Eur
