Latour for architects / Albena Yaneva.

Main entry:

Yaneva, Albena, author.

Title & Author:

Latour for architects / Albena Yaneva.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
©2022

Description:

xiii, 140 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Thinkers for architects

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-137) and index.

Summary:

"Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognized in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade Latour and his Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers in the field of architecture. Latour for Architects is the first introduction to the key concepts and ideas of Bruno Latour that are relevant to architects. First, the book discusses critically how specific methods and insights from his philosophy can inspire new thinking in architecture and design pedagogy. Second, it explores examples from architectural practice and urban design, and reviews recent attempts to extend the methods of ANT into the fields of architectural and urban studies. Third, the book advocates an ANT-inspired approach to architecture and examines how its methodological insights can trace new research avenues in the field, reflecting meticulously on its epistemological offerings. Drawing on many lively examples from the world of architectural practice, the book makes a compelling argument about the agency of architectural design and the role architects can play in re-ordering the world we live in. Following Latour's philosophy offers a new way to handle all the objects of human and non-human collective life, to re-examine the role of matter in design practice, and to redefine the forms of social, political and ethical associations that bind us together in cities"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780367348618 hardcover
0367348616 hardcover
9780367348632 paperback
0367348632 paperback
electronic book
9780429328510
electronic publication
9781000546545
electronic book
9781000546538

Subject:

Latour, Bruno.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.

Added entries:

Thinkers for architects.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315973
Call No.: 315973
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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