Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice : curated works from the P.E.A.R. journal / edited by Matthew Butcher, Megan O'Shea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Shea, Megan, editor.

Butcher, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 447 pages)

Other Title:

Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2020.

Summary:

Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice presents a selection of essays, architectural experiments, and works that explore the diversity within the fields of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. The book pays particular attention to the question of how and why architecture can and should manifest a critical and reflective capacity outside of its primary function; it also closely examines the ways the discipline currently resonates with contemporary art practice. It does so by reflecting on the first ten years of the architectural journal P.E.A.R ... The book features contributions by architectural practitioners, design researchers, artists, architectural theorists, historians, journalists, curators, and even a paleobiologist, all of whom contributed to the journal. Here, they provide a unique presentation of architectural discourse and practice that seeks to test new ground while forming distinct relationships to recent, and more longstanding, historical legacies.

Contents:

1. Place as a reflexive conversation with the situation

2. 'The Grand Pear' (Home): Mass housing for a mass of people

3. Undead and/or dead living: The new social category

4. Yesilyurt Karin Ruggaber in Conversation with Megan O'Shea

5. A life of its own

6. The Whitechapel Gift Shop Torange Khonsari (public works) in conversation with Megan O'Shea

7. Dwelling in the twenty-first century: 'The Professor's Study'

8. Horizon remix: A 'crisis' in the architectural image representations of Lacaton & Vassal's 'double space'

9. A conversation with Le Corbusier

10. Architectures of slowness: Actioning historical loops and repetitions

11. A (drawn) practice(d) construction: Relational structuring, chased

12. Open score architecture

13. Saved from the wrecking ball on a daily basis: Participation in design conversation and everyday experience

14. Writtle Calling/2EmmaToc: A radio station for Essex

15. The fossilization of architecture in the Anthropocene

16. Architecture in the dark

17. Seoul City

18. On the enclosures of time

19. 'The Topiary Garden of Houldsworth Terrace

20. Mallory's ascent: Engaging the space of death through architectural drawing

21. Forget material

22. 'MeMeMeMe Totem'

23. Digital doubles, colliding in mid-air Prototyping a postdramatic scenography

24. The discrete turn: A reconsideration of architecture's ontology

25. Choreographing curatorial conversations

26. Shelf life.

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