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Crossbenching: Toward Participation as Critical Spatial Practice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miessen, Markus, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural criticism.
- Democracy.
- Political science.
- Sociology.
- Genre:
- Essays
- Essay.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Sternberg Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- ""At the heart of this book is a simple and profound proposition: to 'do' architecture is to immerse oneself in a conflictual process of material production-participation is not a productive encounter of multiple practitioners and stakeholders, but a set of conflicts, negotiations, maneuvers, and swindles between and within a multiplicity of agents, human and nonhuman alike-equally including architects, clients, financiers, and builders, say, but also silicon, plastic, concrete, each with its conflicting aims and different material means to achieve them. Every building is thus the materialization of such encounter. So, despite the hubris of the field, none of the parties to such an encounter can ultimately control that the result-architecture (unlike real estate), according to Miessen, belongs to no one but affects and is affected by everyone-and this proposition asks that we reframe questions of ethics and politics. They can no longer be the property of an individual but a collective set of interrelations-it is through such profound departure from the terms of architecture that Miessen's new book demands nothing less than to reimagine how we might finally become citizens." -Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London"-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
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