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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790600403321

Autore

Yaneva Albena

Titolo

Mapping controversies in architecture [[electronic resource] /] / Albena Yaneva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

1-315-59380-7

1-317-10093-X

1-317-10092-1

1-283-47984-2

9786613479846

1-4094-2669-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

720.1/03

Soggetti

Architectural design - Decision making

Architectural design - Information technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Rethinking bifurcations -- pt. 2. Mapping processes.

Sommario/riassunto

This book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture? It places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run between local and global, social and technical. Mapping controversies can be extrapolated to a wid