Architectures of Life and Death
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Architectures of Life and Death

The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment

  1. 251 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Architectures of Life and Death

The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Architectures of Life and Death by Andrej Radman,Stavros Kousoulas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Architecture Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9798881855147
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Architecture Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Part I: Metamodelling
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction: Pings and Hups
  9. Chapter 2: Ecologies of Fear and Desire
  10. Chapter 3: From Architecture Lifeless to Architecture Alive
  11. Chapter I: An Index of Affective Mechanisms: Deciphering the Pre-Subjective Power of Spatial Assemblages
  12. Part II: Asignifying Semiotics
  13. Chapter 4: Reversed Encounters: Initial Findings on Japan-ness in Arakawa and Gins
  14. Chapter 5: A Cartography of Discourses on Architectures of Life and/or Death
  15. Chapter 6: Lilacs Out of the Dead Land
  16. Chapter II: Grasping Ma: Renske Maria van Dam 
  17. Part III: Pedagogy of Senses
  18. Chapter 7: The Garden of Sisyphus: A Design Proposal for the First (Public) Crematorium in Greece
  19. Chapter 8: Towards a Playful Architecture: Crisis, Sense-Making and Questions Concerning Method
  20. Chapter 9: Radically Alive: A Disappearing Mining Town at Europe’s Margins
  21. Index
  22. Biographies