This Thing Called Theory (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Stoppani, Teresa; Themistokleous, George; Ponzo, Giorgio

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices.

The sections move gradually from the specifics of architectural thought - its history, theory, and criticism - and their ongoing relation with philosophy, to the critical positions formulated through architecture's specific forms of expression, and onto more recent forms of architecture's engagement and self-definition. The book's thematic sessions are concluded by and interspersed with a series of shorter critical position texts, which, together, propose a new vision of the contemporary role of theory in architecture. What emerges, overall, is a critical and productive role for theory in architecture today: theory as a proposition, theory as task and as a 'risk' of architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315406251
• Artikelnr.: 47139457

Autorenporträt

Teresa Stoppani is Professor of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University, where she directs the PhD in Architecture programme. She is the author of Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice (Routledge, 2010) and of the forthcoming X Unorthodox Ways to Rethink Architecture and the City (Routledge, 2017). Giorgio Ponzo is Teaching Fellow in Architectural Design and Pedagogy at the Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh, and PhD candidate at Leeds Beckett University. His research pursues a definition of (architectural) knowledge as a combination and recombination of fragments of discourse, where the work of the architect becomes a combinatory practice. George Themistokleous is a Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory and Architectural Design at Leeds Beckett University. His doctoral research considers the limitations of current architectural representational methods in relation to a re-thinking of bodily and machinic vision, through custom made optical devices and multimedia installations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. This Thing Called Theory Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, George
Themistokleous Part 1: Theories and Histories 2. Manfredo Tafuri and the
Death of Architecture Marco De Michelis 3. Theories and History of
Architecture (museums) Sergio M. Figueiredo 4. Architecture In/Out of the
Boudoir? The autonomy of architecture and the architecture of autonomy Ole
W. Fischer 5. Repositioning - Before Theory Kyle Miller Part 2: Between
History and Philosophy 6. Which "Humanism"? On the Italian Theory of
Architecture, 1951-1969 Amir Djalali 7. Philosophical Thinking as Political
Praxis: Giorgio Agamben and inoperative architecture Camillo Boano 8.
Affective Encounters Amidst Feminist Futures in Architecture? Hélène
Frichot 9. Repositioning - The After(s) and the End(s) of Theory Deborah
Hauptmann Part 3: Beyond the Image 10. Drawing Jerusalem. Notes on Hans
Bol's Jerusalem, with Christ and the Good Shepherd (1575) Andrew Benjamin
11. Architectural Drawing: architecture's speculative visual history
Desley Luscombe 12. God's Eye View Adam Jasper Part 4: Critical Displays
13. Aktion 507: Politics Become Theory Become Praxis Florian Kossak 14.
Architecture and the Neo-avant-garde Michael Chapman 15. Exhibits That
Matter: Material Gestures with Theoretical Stakes Maarten Liefooghe 16.
Repositioning - This Think Called Crit ... Brian Hatton Part 5: Theories of
Things 17. Ready, Steady, Cook with Bergson, Plato and Gordon Matta-Clark
Stephen Walker 18. Pragmatics: Towards a Theory of Things Gerry Adler 19.
Expendability of Life and Technology: Architecture's Thing and the
Thingness of Theory Ivana Wingham Part 6: The Transactions of Architecture
20. Architecture and the Promise of Post-capitalism Anthony Burke 21.
Domestic, Production, Debt: For a Theory of the Informal Platon Issaias
22. White, Wide, and Scattered: Picturing (her) Housing Career Helen
Runting and Hélène Frichot 23. Toward a Theory of Interior Ross Exo Adams
24. Repositioning - Theory Now. Don't excavate, change reality! Roemer Van
Toorn Part 7: Forms of Engagement 25. (Un)political Pippo Ciorra 26. Prince
Complex: Narcissism and Reproduction of the Architectural Mirror Camilo
Amaral 27. Less than Enough: a critique of Aureli's project Douglas Spencer
28. Repositioning - Having Ideas Mario Carpo 29. 'But that is not enough'
Teresa Stoppani Index