Architecture in the space of flows / edited by Andrew Ballantyne and Chris L. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Andrew.

Smith, Chris (Chris L.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

xix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Presenting a collection of exploratory ideas this book offers an understanding of buildings people and settlements through concept of flow. Flows make buildings work indeed flows make things in general work, including settlements, machines and people. We need there to be a flow of nourishment, of energy and water. Building materials flow from quarries into buildings - in the case of steel and glass, a flow of energy takes them into a molten stage. Eventually they erode into dust. Energy is produced from flows of material oil, water, wind-and work is turned into liquid assets.

The metaphorical term the space of flow's was coined by the sociologists Manuel Castells who used it to express the instantaneous electronic flow of capital around the world markets. In recent years there has been a huge growth in interests in various aspects of fluidity in architecture and urban planning. This book addresses this rising topic and the interests in processes that flow across traditional boundaries from the person to the building, from the sense of self to the settlement, from economic to identity.

The most important thing that the books does is to re-focus our attention on the idea of flow and its pervasive importance. This is a corrective in a culture that has traditionally given a high value to the perfection of form. Form is easier to pin down and measure, easier talk about, but flows are what makes things work, and even the most compelling of forms is redundant if it does not connect with the flows that give it a role. Book jacket.

Contents:

Fluxion / Andrew Ballantyne and Chris L. Smith

Places in flux. Theoretical, conceptual, ethical, and methodological stakes to induce a new age : M.U.D. / Marc Godts and Nel Janssens

Oceanic spaces of flow / Amanda Yates

Interpretive flow : a 1930s trans-cultural architectural nexus / Åsa Andersson

Solar flow : the uses of light in Gold Coast living / Patricia Wise

Trade flow : architectures of informal markets / Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

Local flows : Rom-Hoob's phenomena of transition / Soranart Sinuraibhan

Spaces of flow. Controlling flow : on the logistics of distributive space / Craig Martin

Temporal flows / Steve Basson

Navigating flow : architecture of the blogospere / Wael Salah Fahmi

The (not so) smooth flow between architecture and life / Stephen Loo

Envoi

Limits of fluxion / Michael Tawa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415585415

0415585414

9780415585422

0415585422

OCLC:

676728338