Title & Author:

Agency : working with uncertain architectures / edited by Florian Kossak [and others].

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

xiv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Critiques ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Agency : working with uncertain architectures / Florian Kossak [and others] -- Activism in Appalachia : Yale architecture students in Kentucky, 1966-69 / Richard W. Hayes -- Environmental and social action in the studio : three live projects along the Elizabeth River / Phoebe Crisman -- Secondary agency : learning from Boris Groys / Dana Vais -- On consensus, equality, experts and good design : an interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff / An Architektur and Mathias Heyden -- Acting up : architectural practice as ecological performance / Karin Jaschke -- Ethics and aesthetics : Deleuze, diagrams and sustainability / Stefan White -- The radical potential of architecture / Richard Lister and Thomas Nemeskeri -- Agency, assemblages and ecologies of the contemporary city / Graham Livesey -- Against determination, beyond mediation / Ana Paula Baltazar and Silke Kapp -- Agency and automatism : some strategies of irresponsibilbity in architecture / Michael Chapman -- Interior exile and paper architecture : a spectrum for architectural dissidence / Ines Weizman -- "Air rights" / Helen Mallinson.

Summary:

Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. It considers issues of agency, in particular the role of architectural research as an agency of transformation.

ISBN:

9780415566018 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415566010 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415566025 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415566029 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203860298 (ebk)
0203860292 (ebk)

Subject:

Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture and society History 21st century.
Architectural practice Social aspects.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 21e siècle.
design.
research.
ethics.
social participation.
Architecture and society.
Architekturtheorie
Architektur
Soziologie
Arkitektur och samhälle historia 1900-talet.
Arkitektur och samhäle historia 2000-talet.
Arkitektur sociala aspekter.
Arkitekturteori.
Sociologi.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Kossak, Florian, 1967-
Critiques ; v. 5.

Working with uncertain architectures

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295374
Call No.: BIB 241566
Status: Available