Creative Ecologies: Theorizing the Practice of Architecture - Couverture souple

Frichot, Hélène

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350042080 ISBN 13 : 9781350042087

Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

Synopsis

Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects – to iconic buildings and big-name architects – she instead explores the background of architectural practice, to introduce the creative ecologies in which architecture exists only in relation to other objects and ideas. Consisting of a series of philosophical encounters with architectural practice that are neither neatly located in one domain nor the other, this book is concerned with ‘other ways of doing architecture’. It examines architecture at the limits where it is muddied by alternative disciplinary influences – whether art practice, philosophy or literature. Frichot meets a range of creative characters who work at the peripheries, and who challenge the central assumptions of the discipline, showing that there is no ‘core of architecture’ – there is rather architecture as a multiplicity of diverse concerns in engagement with local environments and worlds. From an author well-known in the disciplines of architecture and philosophy for her scholarship on Deleuze, this is a radical, accessible, and highly-original approach to design research, deftly engaging with an array of current topics from the Anthropocene to affect theory, new materialism to contemporary feminism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Hélène Frichot is Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm Sweden. Her research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy, while her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350042080
• ISBN 13: 9781350042087
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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