Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment
Andrej Radman, Stavros Kousoulas [eds.]
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book combines philosophy, hybrid theory, and architectural theory with case studies, explicitly linking the traditions together to investigate the eco-aesthetics of the urban environment.
Driven by the Foucauldian attitude of subsuming architectural history into a genealogy oftechne,Architectures of Life and Deathadvances a transdisciplinary approach rethinking subjectivity and exploring the political ramifications of these processes for the discipline of architecture and beyond. In contrast to mainstream approaches, architecture will not be seen as representative of culture, but as the mechanism of culture, the ‘collective equipment’ that rests on the reciprocal determination of social habits and technological habitats. In this sense, the idea that we shape our environments, therefore they shape us, is not to be taken as a metaphor. The animate has always been utterly dependent on the inanimate. A livable habitat is one which the inhabitant actively co-evolves with and which does not constitute a ready-made condition to which the inhabitant would simply have to passively adapt.
Driven by the Foucauldian attitude of subsuming architectural history into a genealogy oftechne,Architectures of Life and Deathadvances a transdisciplinary approach rethinking subjectivity and exploring the political ramifications of these processes for the discipline of architecture and beyond. In contrast to mainstream approaches, architecture will not be seen as representative of culture, but as the mechanism of culture, the ‘collective equipment’ that rests on the reciprocal determination of social habits and technological habitats. In this sense, the idea that we shape our environments, therefore they shape us, is not to be taken as a metaphor. The animate has always been utterly dependent on the inanimate. A livable habitat is one which the inhabitant actively co-evolves with and which does not constitute a ready-made condition to which the inhabitant would simply have to passively adapt.
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language:
english
Pages:
234
ISBN 10:
1538147521
ISBN 13:
9781538147528
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PDF, 22.72 MB
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english, 2021
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