Title & Author:

Can architecture be an emancipatory project? : dialogues on the Left / edited by Nadir Lahiji.

Publication:

Alresford, Hants, UK : Zero Books, 2016.
©2015

Description:

xviii, 193 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Dialogues: Round One. 1. Autonomy's Adventures: or What Does it Mean to Politicize Architecture? / Libero Andreotti -- 2. Architecture, the Built and the Idea of Socialism / David Cunningham -- 3. Architects, Really / Peggy Deamer -- 4. On The Impossibility of an Emancipatory Architecture: The Deadlock of Critical Theory, Insurgent Architects, and the Beginning of Politics / Erik Swyngedouw -- Dialogues: Round Two. 5. The Misery of Theory: On Universality, Contingency, and Truth / Libero Andreotti -- 6. Architecture, Capitalism and the 'Autonomy' of the Political / David Cunningham -- 7. Architecture/Agency/Emancipation / Peggy Deamer -- 8. But What About Left Architecture? / Erik Swyngedouw -- 9. The Project of Emancipation, the Communist Hypothesis, and a Plea for The Platonism of Architecture / Nadir Lahiji -- Afterword / Joan Ockman.

ISBN:

9781782797371 (paperback)
1782797378 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781782797364

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Political aspects.
Liberty.
Freedom
Architecture et société.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Aspect politique.
Liberté.
freedom.
Architektur
Philosophie
Politische Einstellung
Die Linke

Added entries:

Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- editor, author.

Subtitle on cover: Dialogues on architecture and the Left

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292577
Call No.: BIB 236938
Status: Available