LEADER 02872nam 22003613 450 001 9910890875003321 005 20250627080332.0 010 $a9781685711238 035 $a(CKB)33812121200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32154355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32154355 035 $a(BIP)105758020 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933812121200041 100 $a20250627d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnalogical City 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aEarth, Milky Way :$cPunctum Books,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (279 pages) 330 $aIn Analogical City, Cameron McEwan argues for architecture's status as a critical project. McEwan revisits architect Aldo Rossi as a paradigmatic figure of the critical rational tradition, studying a neglected aspect of his thought -- the analogical city -- to excavate its potential. McEwan develops a grammar of the analogical city under the headings of Imagination, Transformation, City, Multitude, and Project. McEwan argues that the analogical city is critical, collective, and emancipatory. Analogical thought and understanding cities as analogical might open the conditions of possibility for rethinking the critical project in architecture.At a time when the humanities and the sciences are threatened by irrational thought, from climate denial to post-truth narratives, and when architecture has seemingly disavowed its critical capacity and political possibility through its commodification as an instrument of the neoliberal city, McEwan offers critical strategies, conceptual tools, figures of thought, and knowledge practices to articulate modes of thinking and acting differently within architectural criticism and practice. Today, knowledge is a common terrain of struggle and thought requires constant reinvention. The task of architecture, and critique more broadly, must be to interpret the world in order to change it. Consequently Analogical City proposes modes for imagining the city, the subject, and the world otherwise -- towards a more egalitarian and critical architecture of the city.Ultimately, the analogical city is not a fully developed theory, nor is it only an intuitive, poetic, or purely formal practice, as some critics propose. McEwan argues that the analogical city is poetic and political: it always refers beyond itself towards a collective and critical project of the city, and yet it invites a series of formal, spatial, and graphic operations comprising erasure and negativity followed by substitution and remontage. 676 $a720.1 700 $aMcEwan$b Cameron$01769981 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910890875003321 996 $aAnalogical City$94245888 997 $aUNINA