03653oam 2200709I 450 991045672260332120200520144314.01-135-28190-41-135-28191-21-282-44355-097866124435580-203-86029-210.4324/9780203860298 (CKB)2550000000003443(EBL)465302(OCoLC)502240507(SSID)ssj0000334480(PQKBManifestationID)12099604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334480(PQKBWorkID)10260354(PQKB)11706025(MiAaPQ)EBC465302(Au-PeEL)EBL465302(CaPaEBR)ebr10358747(CaONFJC)MIL244355(OCoLC)1000426653(EXLCZ)99255000000000344320180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgency working with uncertain architectures /edited by Florian Kossak. [and others]London ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (192 p.)Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ;v. 5Description based upon print version of record.0-415-56602-9 0-415-56601-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Agency: Working with uncertain architectures; Intervene; Activism in Appalachia: Yale architecture students in Kentucky, 1966-69; Environmental and social action in the studio: Three live projects along the Elizabeth River; Secondary agency: Learning from Boris Groys; On consensus, equality, experts and good design: An interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff; Sustain; Acting up: Architectural practice as ecological performance; Ethics and aesthetics: Deleuze, diagrams and sustainabilityThe radical potential of architectureAgency, assemblages and ecologies of the contemporary city; Mediate; Against determination, beyond mediation; Agency and automatism: Some strategies of irresponsibility in architecture; Interior exile and paper architecture: A spectrum for architectural dissidence; 'Air rights'; IndexWhile the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understaCritiques ;Volume 5.Architecture and societyHistory20th centuryArchitecture and societyHistory21st centuryArchitectural practiceSocial aspectsElectronic books.Architecture and societyHistoryArchitecture and societyHistoryArchitectural practiceSocial aspects.720.1/03720.103720.104Kossak Florian1967-937949FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910456722603321Agency2112934UNINA