Post-Traumatic Urbanism: Architectural Design - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0470744987 ISBN 13 : 9780470744987

Editeur : Academy Press, 2010

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As colleagues in the School of Architecture at the University ofTechnology in Sydney (UTS), Adrian Lahoud (Master ofAdvanced Architecture, Urban Design), Charles Rice(Associate Professor) and Anthony Burke (Associate Professorand Head of School) have developed an approach to urban researchwhich recognises the city as an unstable, though highly organised,environment. The particular theme of this issue of 1 allows thisresearch to frame trauma and its aftermath as the most current andwidely understood manifestation of urban instability.
As a practising architect and Course Director of the Master ofAdvanced Architecture, Urban Design, Lahoud s work rangesacross a number of scales with a particular emphasis on the MiddleEast. As a researcher he explores the relationship between design,conflict and politics. He is a member of the OCEAN design researchnetwork and is completing a doctorate entitled ′The Life of Formsin the City′.
Rice′s research considers the interior as a spatial andexperiential category in domestic and urban culture. His book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity,Domesticity was published by Routledge in 2007, and he iscurrently working on a book manuscript provisionally titled Atrium Effects: John Portman and Architecture′s Discipline.Here he will consider how questions of urban renewal have, sincethe 1970s, been linked to particular design strategies whichemphasise heightened interior effects. With current thinking andpractice so focused on the envelope, climate control and security,thinking through the increasing interiority of urbanism has becomea pressing issue.
Burke′s research addresses questions of computational media andtechnology, and its implications for architecture and urbanism. Agraduate of Columbia University′s GSAPP in 2000, he has focused inparticular on networks and systems logics within contemporarydesign, recently co–editing Network Practices: New Strategies inArchitecture and Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007)with Therese Tierney. His practice, Offshore Studio, like Lahoud′spractice, works across scales to test this research–led designthinking.
In this issue of 1, Lahoud, Rice and Burke aim to wed designexperimentation to politics. Their day–to–day collaboration inresearch and teaching promotes the consideration of advancedtechniques, criticality and the reality of the urban together asthe context for architecture′s disciplinary development.

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Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophehas disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment andinfrastructure of a city, but also the social and culturalnetworks. Cities experiencing trauma dominate the daily news.Images of blasted buildings, or events such as Hurricane Katrinaexemplify the sense of ′immediate impact′. But how is this traumato be understood in its aftermath, and in urban terms? What is theresponse of the discipline to the post–traumatic condition? On theone hand, one can try to restore and recover everything that haspassed, or otherwise see the post–traumatic city as a resilientspace poised on the cusp of new potentialities. While repair andreconstruction are automatic reflexes, the knowledge and practicesof the disciplines need to be imbued with a deeper understanding ofthe effect of trauma on cities and their contingent realities. Thisissue will pursue this latter approach, using examples ofpost–traumatic urban conditions to rethink the agency ofarchitecture and urbanism in the contemporary world. Post–traumaticurbanism demands of architects the mobilisation of skills,criticality and creativity in contexts in which they are notfamiliar. The post–traumatic is no longer the exception; it is theglobal condition.

Contributors include:
Andrew Benjamin
Ole Bouman
Tony Chakar
Mark Fisher
Christopher Hight
Brian Massumi
Todd Reisz
Eyal Weizman
Slavojiek

Counterpoint critics:
Jayne Merkel
Craig Whitaker

Encompasses:
Urban conflict
Reconstruction
Infrastructure
Development
Climate change
Public relations
Population growth
Film

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Academy Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470744987
• ISBN 13: 9780470744987
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144