| Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment Contributor(s): Radman, Andrej (Editor), Kousoulas, Stavros (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1538147521 ISBN-13: 9781538147528 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $115.83 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Architecture | Criticism |
| Dewey: 720.1 |
| LCCN: 2021011027 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Driven by the Foucauldian attitude of subsuming architectural history into a genealogy of techne, Architectures of Life and Death advances a transdisciplinary approach rethinking subjectivity and exploring the political ramifications of these processes for the discipline of architecture and beyond. In contrast to mainstream approaches, architecture will not be seen as representative of culture, but as the mechanism of culture, the 'collective equipment' that rests on the reciprocal determination of social habits and technological habitats. In this sense, the idea that we shape our environments, therefore they shape us, is not to be taken as a metaphor. The animate has always been utterly dependent on the inanimate. A livable habitat is one which the inhabitant actively co-evolves with and which does not constitute a ready-made condition to which the inhabitant would simply have to passively adapt. |
