Architecture and Progress
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Architecture and Progress

Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment

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eBook - ePub

Architecture and Progress

Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment

About this book

This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy.

For shapers of the world, finding 'the solution' is often a mark of progress that becomes embedded in culture, society, and history. Progress is ever-present. Through the exploration of diverse positions in history, theory, and practice, this book explores the potential utility of the progressively problematic rather than the natural tendency towards the progressively solved. Chapters draw on historic spaces, technological advancement, incorporation of the natural world, alterative production, and the consideration of human experience both sensory and psychological. Challenging the positive connotation of 'progress', the writings also explore reversing the notion of obstacle from disruptive anti-tool to obstacle of utilitarian method, a useful tool, pressing approach, and overarching value system.

This will be interesting reading for upper-level students and scholars of Architecture, Urban Design, Philosophy, and Sociology.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040450604
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Obstacles in Progress
  9. 1 Ex, Est, Ut
  10. 2 I just want to say one word to you, just one word: Plastics
  11. 3 The Mediation of Doubt and the Doubt of Mediations
  12. 4 Drawing on History
  13. 5 Types and Specimens: Plants, Digital Assets, and Ecological World-Building in Spatial Design
  14. 6 The Panecillo of Quito in 1903: Resisting Modernity in the Andes
  15. 7 Proving Grounds: Speculative Scenography and Staging the Future
  16. 8 Atado con Alambre: The Alternative Production of Ingenious Architectures
  17. 9 Driven to Distraction
  18. 10 Syn(es)thetic Futures: Lessons from the Hermetically Sealed
  19. 11 Newer Babylons
  20. 12 Unresolution: Fiction in the Space Between Inquiry and Invention
  21. 13 On Enemy Territory
  22. Index