Main entry:

Frichot, Hélène, author.

Title & Author:

Creative ecologies : theorizing the practice of architecture / Hélène Frichot.

Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
©2019

Description:

x, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue - Story one: Maria Reiche - surveying -- Introduction: ecologies of creative practice -- Part 1, Environment-worlds. Environments -- Environments -- Environmentalities -- Worlds and worlding -- Environment-worlds -- Practice scene: tacit, taciturn, Tacita -- Ecologies -- Ecology of practices -- Ecologies of creative practices -- Practice scene: Katla Maríudóttir's volcano -- Exhaustion: of environment-worlds -- Part 2,Things. Object oriented -- Story two: Agnès Varda - gleaning -- Things -- Rock, grotto, inscrutable thing -- Hyperobjects -- Object-oriented things -- OOPs! -- OOOh, no! -- Practice scene: Chelle Macnaughtan's Trottoirs -- Thing-power -- Object-oriented democracy -- Architectural things -- Entangled web of things -- Practice scene: Julieanna hauls mud -- Onflows, through-flows and things -- Exhaustion: of things -- Part 3, Thinkables. Noology -- Story three: Zoë Sofia (Sofoulis) - unthinkables -- Thinkables -- Noology -- Noopolitics -- Noourbanography -- Practice scene: Michelle Hamer follows on stitch at a time -- Concept tools -- Image of thought -- Thinkables -- Concept-tools -- Practice scene: Michael Spooner's A clinic for the exhausted -- Exhaustion: of the concept -- Conclusion: exhaustion and its after-affects -- Practice scene: Margit Brünner's joys -- Exhaustion, beatitude -- Practice scene: Camilla Damkjaer's handstand -- After-affect: beatitude, joy.

Summary:

Architect and philosopher Helene 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 contemporary feminism.

ISBN:

9781350036567 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1350036560 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781350042087 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1350042080 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(ePDF)
9781350036536
(ePub)
9781350036543

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architectural practice.
Architecture Philosophie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305460
Call No.: BIB 251296
Status: Available