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Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings - Couverture souple

Wharton, Annabel Jane

 
9780816693399: Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings
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ISBN 10 : 0816693390 ISBN 13 : 9780816693399
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2015

Synopsis

Buildings are not benign; rather, they commonly manipulate and abuse their human users. Architectural Agents makes the case that buildings act in the world independently of their makers, patrons, owners, or occupants. And often they act badly.

Treating buildings as bodies, Annabel Jane Wharton writes biographies of symptomatic structures in order to diagnose their pathologies. The violence of some sites is rooted in historical trauma; the unhealthy spatial behaviors of other spaces stem from political and economic ruthlessness. The places examined range from the Cloisters Museum in New York City and the Palestine Archaeological Museum (renamed the Rockefeller Museum) in Jerusalem to the grand Hostal de los Reyes Católicos in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Las Vegas casino resorts. Recognizing that a study of pathological spaces would not be complete without an investigation of digital structures, Wharton integrates into her argument an original consideration of the powerful architectures of video games and immersive worlds. Her work mounts a persuasive critique of popular phenomenological treatments of architecture.

Architectural Agents advances an alternative theorization of buildings' agency--one rooted in buildings' essential materiality and historical formation--as the basis for her significant intervention in current debates over the boundaries separating humans, animals, and machines.

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À propos de l'auteur

Annabel Jane Wharton is William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History at Duke University. Her most recent books include Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, selected by Economist as one of the best books of 2001, and Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816693390
ISBN 13 
9780816693399
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Nombre de pages
344
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