Virilio for architects / John Armitage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armitage, John, 1956- author.

Series:

Thinkers for architects

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virilio, Paul.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 129 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including: - Oblique Architecture and Bunker Archeology - Critical Space and the Overexposed City - The Ultracity and Very High Buildings - Grey Ecology and Global Hypermovement In exploring Virilio's most important architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi. Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Virilio's architectural career 3

2 Analysing the oblique 12

Post-Second World War French architecture, the Écolc des Beaux-Arts, and Architecture Principe 13

'Manhattan Out' 15

'The Oblique Function' 19

The oblique church of Saintc-Bernadette du Banlay, Nevers 22

Analysing the oblique: bunker archeology 29

3 Critical space 40

On the origins of Virilio's conception of critical space 41

'The Overexposed City' 44

The interface of virtual space 45

The contamination of real space by virtual space 47

The struggle to redefine the unity of time and place in the overexposed city 50

Recombining the real space/virtual space divide 53

The sudden confusion between reception and perception, or the transformation of matter into light 56

Virilio: architectural theory and practice 59

4 The big night; into the ultracity 63

'The Big Night' 64

'The Unknown Quantity': farewell to the Milky Way 68

From urban stasis to urban escape 75

Into 'The Ultracity': anti-ecological and escapist strategies in the city of extremes 80

Motorized and accelerated temporalities: the mutation of technical progress 84

Very high buildings "or exurbanism at altitude 85

5 Bernard Tschumi, grey ecology, and the cities of the beyond 89

Tschumism 92

'Grey Ecology' 99

Critical and hypercritical space 101

Global hypermovement 106

Hyperworld space or the revolution of the hypcrevent 107

'In the Cities of the Beyond' 107

Thinking differently; grey ecology and the question concerning the contemporary world-city 112.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415819022

0415819024

9780415819039

0415819032

OCLC:

883647569