Title & Author:

Architecture and progress : exploring a progressively problematic built environment / edited by Mark Alan Blumberg and Matt Hall.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.
©2026

Description:

ix, 202 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : obstacles to progress / Matt Hall and Mark Alan Blumberg -- Ex, est, ut / Wes Jones -- I just want to say one word to you, just one word : plastics / Nathan Matteson -- The mediation of doubt and the doubt of mediations / Michael Young -- Drawing on history / Mustafa Faruki -- Types and specimens : plants, digital assets, and the ecological world-building in spatial design / Sonia Sobrino Ralston -- The Panecillo of Quito in 1903 : resisting modernity in the Andes / Christina Bueno -- Proving grounds : speculative scenography and staging the future / Constance Vale -- Atado con Alambre : the alternative production of ingenious architectures / Carolina Dayer and Jonathan Foote -- Driven to distraction / Matthias Altwicker -- Syn(es)thetic futures : lessons from the hermetically sealed / Brian Ambroziak and Katherine Bambrick Ambroziak -- Newer Babylons / Matt Hall -- Unresolution : fiction in the space between inquiry and invention / Mark Alan Blumberg -- On enemy territory / Gregory Spaw and Patrick Rhodes.

Summary:

"This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy. For shapers of the world, finding 'the solution' is often a mark of progress that becomes embedded in culture, society, and history. Progress is ever-present. Through the exploration of diverse positions in history, theory and practice, this book explores the potential utility of the progressively problematic rather than the natural tendency towards the progressively solved. Chapters draw on historic spaces, technological advancement, incorporation of the natural world, alterative production and the consideration of human experience both sensory and psychological. Challenging the positive connotation of 'progress', the writings also explore reversing the notion of obstacle from disruptive anti-tool to obstacle of utilitarian method, a useful tool, pressing approach, and overarching value system. This will be interesting reading for upper-level students and scholars of Architecture, Urban Design, Philosophy, and Sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032767550 (hardback)
1032767553 (hardback)
9781032767536 (paperback)
1032767537 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781003479932
1003479936

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Progress.
Architecture Philosophie.
Progrès.
architectural theory.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Blumberg, Mark Alan, editor.
Hall, Matthew (Matthew Scott), 1976- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325449
Call No.: 325449
Copy: 1
Status: Available