Abstract
Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice presents a selection of essays, architectural experiments and works that explore the diversity within the fields of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. Specific in this selection is the question of how and why architecture can and should manifest in a critical and reflective capacity, as well as to examine how the discipline currently resonates with contemporary art practice. It does so by reflecting on the first 10 years of the architectural journal, P.E.A.R. (2009 to 2019). The volume argues that the initial aims of the journal – to explore and celebrate the myriad forms through which architecture can exist – are now more relevant than ever to contemporary architectural discourse and practice.
Highlights
Place and the systems crisisThe present moment is characterised by a number of pressing crises
I have argued that NorbergSchulz interprets Piaget in trivially constructivist terms, and I have contrasted this with the radically constructivist reading of Piaget’s work that is associated with cybernetics
Abraham clearly sets out his purpose for utilising this formal repetition of primary geometries, simultaneously echoing the modernists of the early twentieth century and the ancient form of prehistoric structures such as burial mounds, it is in the work and writings of one of his fellow avant-garde architects, Peter Eisenman, that we find a more rigorous articulation in the meaning of this trend for historical repetition
Summary
Digital doubles, colliding in mid-air: Prototyping a postdramatic scenography. The discrete turn: A reconsideration of architecture’s ontology 394. 136 Fig. 8.5 Interior of an extended apartment interior of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris, by Frédéric Druot and Lacaton & Vassal, 2011. 141 Fig. 8.6 Interior of the same apartment interior of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, showing the original core of the apartment. 155–6 Fig. 9.6 The Klassnik Corporation, a conversation with Le Corbusier, minutes from the séance, 2011. 220 Fig. 12.4 Erwin Hauer, ‘Design 4’, 1954, drawing and photograph. 221 Fig. 12.5 Jørn Utzon, ‘Bagsværd Church’, section, 1976, 246 248 x. 329 330 Fig. 19.1 FleaFollyArchitects (Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier), ‘The Topiary Garden of Houldsworth Terrace’, 2019.
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