The architecture of transgression / guest-edited by Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mosley, Jonathan.

Sara, Rachel.

Series:

Architectural design (London, England : 1971)

Architectural Design, 0003-8504

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Wiley, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has long been sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture of conservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized status as one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up new possibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact that working on

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Copyright Page; EDITORIAL; ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS; SPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issue; INTRODUCTION: The Architecture of Transgression: Towards a Destabilising Architecture; Transgression: The Concept; Extenuating Circumstances: Salvaged Landscape; Architecture and Transgression: An Interview with Bernard Tschumi; Transgression and Progress in China: Wang Shu and the Literati Mindset; Not Doing/Overdoing: 'Omission' and 'Excess' - Lacaton & Vassal's Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais

Citadels of Freedom: Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompéia Factory Leisure Centre and Teatro Oficina, São PauloTactics for a Transgressive Practice; Low-Tech Transgression: The Interventional Work of EXYZT; Occupied Space; The Power of Logic Versus the Logic of Power: N55; Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements; Architecture (and the other 99%): Open-Source Architecture and the Design Commons; An Architecture of Exception: Transgressing the Everyday - Superflex's Flooded McDonald's; Transgression in and of the City

Urban Disturbance: Urban Intrusions of the office for subversive architecture (osa)City as Skin: Urban Imaginaries of Flesh and Fantasy; In Praise of Transgression: The Work of Didier Faustino/Bureau de Mésarchitectures; Ashes Thrown to the Wind: The Elusive Nature of Transgression; COUNTERPOINT: Transgression, Innovation, Politics; CONTRIBUTORS; ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9781118759073

1118759079

OCLC:

874150470