| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 753 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1: Architectural Theory in an Expanded Field -- 2: Reading the Handbook -- Section 1 - Power / Difference / Embodiment -- 1 Introduction: Shifting Paradigms and Concerns -- 2 Architecture, Capitalism and Criticality -- 3 Interrogating Difference: Postcolonial Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism -- 4 Tendencies and Trajectories: Feminist Approaches in Architecture -- SECTION 1 Bibliography -- 5 Citizenship -- SECTION 2 - Aesthetics / Pleasure / Excess -- 6 Introduction: Architecture and Aesthetics -- 7 Architectural Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern -- 8 Formalism and Forms of Practice -- 9 Art in (and of) Architecture: Autonomy and Medium -- Section 2 Bibliography -- 10 Consumption -- SECTION 3 - Nation / World / Spectacle -- 11 Introduction: Enacting Modernity -- 12 Rethinking the Nation -- 13 Entangled Modernities in Architecture -- 14 Notes on the Society of the Brand -- Section 3 - Bibliography -- 15 Heritage -- SECTION 4 - History / Memory / Tradition -- 16 Introduction: Time's Arrows: Spaces of the Past -- 17 Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, -- Contested Histories and the Question of Authenticity -- 18 Collective Memory Under Siege: The Case of 'Heritage Terrorism' -- 19 Concepts of Vernacular Architecture -- Section 4 Bibliography -- 20 Culture -- |
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SECTION 5 Design / Production / Practice -- 21 Introduction: Architecture's Double-Bind -- 22 Prometheus Unchained: The Multiple Itineraries of Contemporary Professional Freedom -- 23 Manners of Working: Fabricating Representation in Digital Based Design -- 24 Plural Profession, Discrepant Practices -- Section 5 Bibliography -- 25 Flows -- SECTION 6 - Science / Technology / Virtuality -- 26 Introduction: Technology, Science and Virtuality -- 27 Virtual Architecture, Actual Media -- 28 Technology, Virtuality, Materiality -- 29 Architecture, Technology and the Body: From the Prehuman to the Posthuman -- Section 6 Bibliography -- 30 Infrastructure -- SECTION 7 - Nature / Ecology / Sustainability -- 31 Introduction: Whither 'Earthly' Architectures: Constructing Sustainability -- 32 The Ecology Question and Architecture -- 33 Beyond Sustainability: Architecture in the Renewable City -- 34 Tropical Variants of Sustainable Architecture: A Postcolonial Perspective -- Section 7 Bibliography -- 35 Landscapes -- SECTION 8 - City / Metropolis / Territory -- 36 Introduction: Metropolis, Megalopolis and Metacity -- 37 The Contemporary European Urban Project: Archipelago City, Diffuse City and Reverse City -- 38 Slum as Theory: Mega-Cities and Urban Models -- 39 Common Lines of Flight Towards the Open City -- Section 8 Bibliography -- 40 Housing -- Index |
| Summary |
"The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory documents and builds upon some of the most innovative developments in architectural theory over the last two decades. Bringing into dialogue a range of geographically, institutionally and historically competing positions, the book examines and explores parallel debates in related fields. The book is divided into eight sections: Power/Difference/Embodiment - Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess - Nation/Spectacle/Modernity - History/Memory/Tradition - Design/Practice/Production - echnology/Science/Virtuality - Nature/Landscape/Sustainability - City/Metropolis/Territory. Creating openings for future lines of inquiry and establishing the basis for new directions for education, research and practice, the book organizes itself around specific case studies to provide a critical, interpretive and speculative enquiry into the relevant debates in architectural theory. A methodical, authoritative and comprehensive addition to the literature, the Handbook is suitable for academics, researchers and practitioners in architecture, urban geography, cultural studies, sociology and geography"--Publisher's summary |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Restricted |
Due to publisher license, access is restricted to authorised GRAIL clients only. Please contact GRAIL staff |
| Subject |
Architecture - Philosophy
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Architecture and society
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crysler, C. Greig, editor
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Cairns, Stephen, editor
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Heynen, Hilde, editor
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| ISBN |
9781848600393 : |
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