Tahl Kaminer

The Efficacy of Architecture

Political Contestation and Agency

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Efficacy of Architecture supports the return of architecture to politics by interrogating theories, practices and instances that claim or evidence architectural agency. It studies the political theories animating the architects, revisits the emergence of reformist architecture in late-nineteenth-century, and brings to the fore the relation of spatial organization to social forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138909861
• ISBN-10: 1138909866
• Artikelnr.: 47259274

Autorenporträt

Tahl Kaminer is Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He co-founded and edited the journal Footprint. His publications include the monograph Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation (Routledge, 2011) and the co-edited anthologies Houses in Transformation (2008), Urban Asymmetries (2011) and Critical Tools (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Return to Politics. Part 1: Critique, Reformism and
Co-Optation Critique and Change. The Ascent of Reformism. The Integration
of Critique Part 2: The Architecture of Radical Democracy The Post-Fordist
City. Theories of Participation. Theories of Contestation. Praxis Part 3:
Languages of Architecture The Political as the Symbolic. Urban Form.
'Vulgar' Architecture, 'Vulgar' Politics. Notes. Bibliography. Index.