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Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes. But the way in which America builds its homes is part of the problem. This deeply researched history of sustainable design standards in building codes explores how public policy, standard-setting trade associations, and financial incentives influence the(...)
The greening of America's building codes: promises and paradoxes
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Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes. But the way in which America builds its homes is part of the problem. This deeply researched history of sustainable design standards in building codes explores how public policy, standard-setting trade associations, and financial incentives influence the ways in which the construction of our homes impacts the environment. It exposes how the socioeconomic and political forces that influenced early building code development continue to define the character of current building codes and, by extension, determine how we regulate environmental impact and define sustainability today.
Architectural Theory
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Ce livre est en quelque sorte une introduction à la pratique du skateboard. À partir des outils mis en place par Roger Caillois dans son essai « Les Jeux et les Hommes » (1958), l’auteur a cherché à décrire le skateboard en tâchant de définir sa place parmi la diversité des jeux et des manières de jouer. Dans un second temps, il couple les catégories du jeu. Sur?les?six(...)
La conjonction interdite : Notes sur le skateboard
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Ce livre est en quelque sorte une introduction à la pratique du skateboard. À partir des outils mis en place par Roger Caillois dans son essai « Les Jeux et les Hommes » (1958), l’auteur a cherché à décrire le skateboard en tâchant de définir sa place parmi la diversité des jeux et des manières de jouer. Dans un second temps, il couple les catégories du jeu. Sur?les?six conjonctions possibles, deux lui paraissent fondamentales, deux seraient contingentes et deux antinomiques. Que l’une des deux « conjonctions interdites » caractérise le mieux le?skateboard semble indiquer que les jeux et les manières de jouer, tout comme les pratiques artistiques d’ailleurs, se sont considérablement étendus et complexifiés au cours de ces cinquante dernières années.
Critical Theory
La ville en communs
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Une ressource, une communauté et des règles de gouvernance établies afin de gérer équitablement la ressource : l'alliance de ces trois éléments constitue ce que l'on nomme aujourd'hui « le commun ». Nous assistons ces dernières années à une véritable explosion des expérimentations et des réflexions autour de ce thème, qui est devenu une référence centrale de la lutte et(...)
Urban Theory
July 2022
La ville en communs
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Une ressource, une communauté et des règles de gouvernance établies afin de gérer équitablement la ressource : l'alliance de ces trois éléments constitue ce que l'on nomme aujourd'hui « le commun ». Nous assistons ces dernières années à une véritable explosion des expérimentations et des réflexions autour de ce thème, qui est devenu une référence centrale de la lutte et de l'action politique, sociale, économique et urbaine. Toutefois, si l'on passe de la notion générale à son application à des cas concrets, nous nous apercevons que peu de travaux sont consacrés à la place que prennent les communs dans la ville et à la manière dont ils contribuent à la transformation de ses formes matérielles. Les communs sont des espaces d'actions collectifs, mais aussi des lieux et des formes spatiales et paysagères : il peut s'agir d'une cour africaine, de la cage d'escalier d'un immeuble collectif, d'une friche industrielle ou d'un potager urbain. Cet ouvrage étudie les modalités d'appropriation de ces espaces par celles et ceux qui les pratiquent et met en résonance l'approche des sciences sociales avec celle de l'urbanisme, pour tenter de répondre à la question : en quoi et sous quelles conditions les communs contribuent-ils à mettre en rapport harmonieux la cité et la ville, les formes matérielles et les modes d'habiter ?
Urban Theory
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2022
Architectures of dismantling and restructuring: Spaces of Danish welfare, 1970-present
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare state” in the early 1970s until today. Rather than unfolding a singular narrative of loss and nostalgia associated with welfare dismantlement – or one of triumphant humanization and restructuring of modernist planned environments – it describes shifting spatial materializations of welfare and the “good life” at the intersection of these two tendencies, under the influence of a Danish version of the neoliberal turn and other important societal transformations. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualization supplements the book’s textual and photographic descriptions of welfare space transformation.
Architectural Theory
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Understanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree of specialized and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time, city planners, architects, researchers, policymakers, and activists are deeply immersed in the chaotic and often contradictory urban realities that they are asked to address. This publication offers an innovative toolkit for(...)
What is critical urbanism?: Urban research as pedagogy
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Understanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree of specialized and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time, city planners, architects, researchers, policymakers, and activists are deeply immersed in the chaotic and often contradictory urban realities that they are asked to address. This publication offers an innovative toolkit for engaging these present realities across disciplinary specializations and geographic purviews. The book is tailored to students, graduates, and teachers of urban studies and related disciplines including architecture, urban design, human geography, architectural history, and urban anthropology.
Urban Theory
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The essays and works of art and design featured in this publication are organized around three territories: the atmospheric, the biologic, and the geologic. Each cluster of essays is further framed by forewords and afterwords, which draw individual points of view into a larger articulation of what an ambiguous territory might be and how it operates. "Ambiguous Territory"(...)
Architectural Theory
August 2022
Ambiguous territory: Architecture, landscape and the postnatural
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The essays and works of art and design featured in this publication are organized around three territories: the atmospheric, the biologic, and the geologic. Each cluster of essays is further framed by forewords and afterwords, which draw individual points of view into a larger articulation of what an ambiguous territory might be and how it operates. "Ambiguous Territory" emerged from a symposium and exhibition held at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2017, and exhibitions at the University of Virginia and Pratt Manhattan Gallery in 2018, and at Ithaca College in 2019. This volume belongs in that territory of ambiguity and curiosity, a place where there is room for musings, laughter, and despair. The projects convey, in different ways, a hope for a better future, but also a sense of not knowing if that future is at all possible.
Architectural Theory
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In this book, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles’s opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural(...)
Ugliness and judgment: On architecture in the public eye
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In this book, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles’s opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state.
Architectural Theory
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This volume is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these spaces transformed Britain’s politics, economy, and society, helping forge a midcentury(...)
Foundations: How the built environment made twentieth-century Britain
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This volume is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these spaces transformed Britain’s politics, economy, and society, helping forge a midcentury developmental state and shaping the rise of neoliberalism after 1980. Taking readers to almost every major British city as well as to places in the United States and Britain’s empire, the book highlights how some of the major transformations of twentieth-century British history were forged in the everyday spaces where people lived, worked, and shopped.
Architectural Theory
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This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within a quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the(...)
The everyday life of memorials
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This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within a quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the study of the everyday and memory studies. This book explores how memorials end up where they are, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined. Finally, exploring how people behave at memorials and what memorials ask of people reveals just how strange the commemorative infrastructure of modernity is.
Architectural Theory
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Aline B. Louchheim (1914–1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. ''When Eero met his match'' draws on the couple’s personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling(...)
When Eero met his match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the making of an architect
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Aline B. Louchheim (1914–1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. ''When Eero met his match'' draws on the couple’s personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship and traces Louchheim’s gradual takeover of Saarinen’s public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights. Drawing on her own experiences as an architecture journalist on the receiving end of press pitches and then as a secret publicist for high-end architects, Eva Hagberg paints an unforgettable portrait of Louchheim while revealing the inner workings of a media world that has always relied on secrecy, friendship, and the exchange of favors. She describes how Louchheim codified the practices of architectural publicity that have become widely adopted today, and shows how, without Louchheim as his wife and publicist, Saarinen’s work would not have been nearly as well known. Providing a new understanding of postwar architectural history in the United States, ''When Eero met his match'' is both a poignant love story and a superb biographical study that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between fame and media representation, and the ways the narratives of others can become our own.
Architectural Theory