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Architecturally Speaking Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by celebrated contributors including Mark Augé, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Anthony Vidler, Lebbeus Woods and Zaha Hadid is juxtaposed with seminal essays by Bernard Tschumi, Doreen Massey and Kenneth Frampton. Brand new work on city space and archi- tecture by radical young companies such as muf and performance artist Graeme Miller are joined by challenging new visions of orientation in the city by anthropolo- gist Franco le Cecla and the technologist William J. Mitchell. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to “speak architecturally” but also the innate relations between the artist’s and architect’s work, how they are dis- tinct and in inspiring ways, how they might relate through questions of built form. The interdisciplinary is often evoked but in this collection the specificity of prac- tices and their relation with everyday contexts announces innovative grounds for collaboration. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects, theatre practitioners, cultural historians and theorists. Alan Read is Professor and Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton. Pre viously he was Director of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. A series of talks he arranged there, Spaced Out, was the genesis of this collection. He is an affiliated professor of Boston University and founding associate editor of the journal Performance Research. Architecturally Speaking Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday edited by Alan Read London and New York First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. © 2000 selection and editorial matter: Alan Read; individual chapters: the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Architecturally speaking: practices of art, architecture, and the everyday / edited by Alan Read. p. cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Architecture–Philosophy. 2. Architecture and society. 3. Artists and architects. 4. City planning–Philosophy. I. Read, Alan, 1956– NA2500.A712 2000 720'.1–dc21 00-032186 ISBN 0-415-23543-X (Hbk) ISBN 0-415-23544-8 (Pbk) ISBN 0-203-46879-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-77703-4 (Adobe eReader Format) For my mother Veronica Mary Read and in memory of my father Alan Read (1916–1956) Contents Contributors ix Introduction 1 Addressing architecture, art and the everyday 1 Alan Read Orienting 7 1 Non-places 7 Marc Augé 2 Thirdspace: expanding the scope of the geographical imagination 13 Edward W. Soja 3 Getting lost and the localized mind 31 Franco La Cecla Locating 49 4 Space–time and the politics of location 49 Doreen Massey 5 Public territory 63 muf with Katherine Shonfield Moving 87 6 Open transmission 87 Krzysztof Wodiczko 7 Country dance 109 Graeme Miller Revealing 119 8 Speech sites 119 Alan Read 9 Battle lines: E1027 141 Beatriz Colomina viii Contents Conceiving 155 10 Six concepts 155 Bernard Tschumi 11 Rappel a l’ordre: the case for the tectonic 177 Kenneth Frampton Constructing 199 12 No-man’s land 199 Lebbeus Woods 13 Internal terrains 211 Zaha Hadid Showing 233 14 Hombroich 233 Oliver Kruse 15 Dear Peter 245 Richard Wentworth Changing 253 16 Autopoetic architecture: the Open City, Ritoque, Chile 253 Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian 17 @morphous mutations 287 François Roche Prospecting 297 18 Imagining E-Topia 297 William J. Mitchell 19 Planets, comets, and dinosaurs: digital identity in virtual space 305 Anthony Vidler Responding 321 20 Spaced out 321 Alan Read Index 331 Contributors Marc Augé Marc Augé is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His books include La traversée du Luxembourg, Un ethnologie dans le métro and Domaines et Chateaux. His work Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, translated by John Howe, is published in the UK by Verso. Marc Augé spoke with Alan Read at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London as part of Spaced Out IIon 15th November 1995. The text published here is an edited version of that talk. Franco La Cecla Franco La Cecla is currently Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Com- munication Studies, University of Bologna. His work is concerned with urban anthropology, indigenous dwelling, resettlements and migrations, multi-ethnic cities and environmental psychology. His books, published in Italian, include, Mente Locale: An Anthropology of Dwelling, Misunderstandings: An Anthropology of Encounters and Getting Lost: Man Without Environment. The text published here is the first English language translation from this work. Franco la Cecla spoke at the Royal Society of Arts, London on Monday 16th November, 1998 on “The Space of Play” with Lucy Bullivant and Alan Read. Beatriz Colomina Beatriz Colomina teaches in the School of Architecture at the University of Prince- ton. She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media and editor of Sexuality and Space. Her work considers the developing systems of communication within which architecture emerges, and architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation. Beatriz Colomina spoke with Robert Harbison at the Institute of Contempor- ary Arts, London, as part of Spaced Out I on 13th March 1995. The following essay is an edited version of that talk which has subsequently been published in different form in: Francesca Hughes (ed.) The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice(MIT Press 1996).
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