The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory

777 Pages·2012·14.82 MB·English

by  Greig Crysler

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architectural theory over the last two decades. Bringing into dialogue a range of geographically, institutionally
and historically competing positions, the book examines and explores parallel debates in related fields.
The book is divided into eight sections:
•             Power/Difference/Embodiment •             Design/Production/Practice
•             Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess •             Science/Technology/Virtuality

•             Nation/World/Spectacle •             Nature/Ecology/Sustainability

•             History/Memory/Tradition •             City/Metropolis/Territory.
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The SAGE Handbook of
Architectural Theory
Edited by
C. Greig Crysler,
Stephen Cairns
and Hilde Heynen
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Introductions and Editorial Arrangements © C. Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen 2012
Chapter 1 © Hilde Heynen and Gwendolyn Wright 2012 Chapter 21 © Dana Cuff 2012
Chapter 2 © Ole W. Fischer 2012 Chapter 22 © Paolo Tombesi 2012
Chapter 3 © Jyoti Hosagrahar 2012 Chapter 23 © Christopher Hight 2012
Chapter 4 © Jane Rendell 2012 Chapter 24 © David Salomon 2012
Chapter 5 © Ines Weizman 2012 Chapter 25 © Stephen Cairns 2012
Chapter 6 © John Macarthur and Naomi Stead 2012 Chapter 26 © Arie Graafland and Heidi Sohn 2012
Chapter 7 © Jorge Otero-Pailos 2012 Chapter 27 © N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon 2012
Chapter 8 © Sandra Kaji-O’Grady 2012 Chapter 28 © Antoine Picon 2012
Chapter 9 © Bart Verschaffel 2012 Chapter 29 © Jonathan Hale 2012
Chapter 10 © Ana Miljacˇki 2012 Chapter 30 © Delia Duong Ba Wendel 2012
Chapter 11 © AbdouMaliq Simone 2012 Chapter 31 © Simon Guy 2012
Chapter 12 © Abidin Kusno 2012 Chapter 32 © Richard Ingersoll 2012
Chapter 13 © Duanfang Lu 2012 Chapter 33 © Peter Droege 2012
Chapter 14 © Shiloh Krupar and Stefan Al 2012 Chapter 34 © Jiat-Hwee Chang 2012
Chapter 15 © Fernando Diez 2012 Chapter 35 © Kelly Shannon 2012
Chapter 16 © C. Greig Crysler 2012 Chapter 36 © Brian McGrath and Grahame Shane 2012
Chapter 17 © Mrinalini Rajagopalan 2012 Chapter 37 © Paola Viganò 2012
Chapter 18 © M. Christine Boyer 2012 Chapter 38 © Vyjayanthi Rao 2012
Chapter 19 © Robert Brown and Daniel Maudlin 2012 Chapter 39 © Deborah Natsios 2012
Chapter 20 © Paul Walker 2012 Chapter 40 © Iain Low 2012
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction – 1: Architectural Theory in an Expanded Field 1
Introduction – 2: Reading the Handbook 23
C. Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen
SECTION 1 POWER/DIFFERENCE/EMBODIMENT 39
1 Introduction: Shifting Paradigms and Concerns 41
Hilde Heynen and Gwendolyn Wright
2 Architecture, Capitalism and Criticality 56
Ole W. Fischer
3 Interrogating Difference: Postcolonial Perspectives in Architecture
and Urbanism 70
Jyoti Hosagrahar
4 Tendencies and Trajectories: Feminist Approaches in Architecture 85
Jane Rendell
Section 1 Bibliography 98
5 Citizenship 107
Ines Weizman
SECTION 2 AESTHETICS/PLEASURE/EXCESS 121
6 Introduction: Architecture and Aesthetics 123
John Macarthur and Naomi Stead
7 Architectural Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern 136
Jorge Otero-Pailos
8 Formalism and Forms of Practice 152
Sandra Kaji-O’Grady
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9 Art in (and of ) Architecture: Autonomy and Medium 165
Bart Verschaffel
Section 2 Bibliography 177
10 Consumption 184
Ana Miljacˇki
SECTION 3 NATION/WORLD/SPECTACLE 199
11 Introduction: Enacting Modernity 201
AbdouMaliq Simone
12 Rethinking the Nation 213
Abidin Kusno
13 Entangled Modernities in Architecture 231
Duanfang Lu
14 Notes on the Society of the Spectacle 247
Shiloh Krupar and Stefan Al
Section 3 Bibliography 264
15 Heritage 274
Fernando Diez
SECTION 4 HISTORY/MEMORY/TRADITION 287
16 Introduction: Time’s Arrows: Spaces of the Past 289
C. Greig Crysler
17 Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, Contested
Histories and the Question of Authenticity 308
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
18 Collective Memory Under Siege: The Case of ‘Heritage Terrorism’ 325
M. Christine Boyer
19 Concepts of Vernacular Architecture 340
Robert Brown and Daniel Maudlin
Section 4 Bibliography 356
20 Culture 369
Paul Walker
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CONTENTS vii
SECTION 5 DESIGN/PRODUCTION/PRACTICE 383
21 Introduction: Architecture’s Double-Bind 385
Dana Cuff
22 Prometheus Unchained: The Multiple Itineraries of Contemporary
Professional Freedom 393
Paolo Tombesi
23 Manners of Working: Fabricating Representation in Digital Based Design 410
Christopher Hight
24 Plural Profession, Discrepant Practices 430
David Salomon
Section 5 Bibliography 444
25 Flows 451
Stephen Cairns
SECTION 6 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/VIRTUALITY 465
26 Introduction: Technology, Science and Virtuality 467
Arie Graafland and Heidi Sohn
27 Virtual Architecture, Actual Media 484
N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon
28 Technology, Virtuality, Materiality 501
Antoine Picon
29 Architecture, Technology and the Body: From the Prehuman to
the Posthuman 513
Jonathan Hale
Section 6 Bibliography 527
30 Infrastructure 534
Delia Duong Ba Wendel
SECTION 7 NATURE/ECOLOGY/SUSTAINABILITY 553
31 Introduction: Whither ‘Earthly’ Architectures: Constructing Sustainability 555
Simon Guy
32 The Ecology Question and Architecture 573
Richard Ingersoll
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33 Beyond Sustainability: Architecture in the Renewable City 590
Peter Droege
34 Tropical Variants of Sustainable Architecture: A Postcolonial Perspective 602
Jiat-Hwee Chang
Section 7 Bibliography 618
35 Landscapes 625
Kelly Shannon
SECTION 8 CITY/METROPOLIS/TERRITORY 639
36 Introduction: Metropolis, Megalopolis and Metacity 641
Brian McGrath and Grahame Shane
37 The Contemporary European Urban Project: Archipelago City,
Diffuse City and Reverse City 657
Paola Viganò
38 Slum as Theory: Mega-Cities and Urban Models 671
Vyjayanthi Rao
39 Common Lines of Flight Towards the Open City 687
Deborah Natsios
Section 8 Bibliography 704
40 Housing 711
Iain Low
Index 725
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List of Contributors
Stefan Al is Director of the Urban Design Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has
edited the book Factory Towns of South China, and is currently writing a book on the Las Vegas
Strip. As a practicing architect he worked on the 612-meter high Canton Tower. Al holds a
M.Sc. in Architecture from Delft University of Technology, an M.Arch. from the Bartlett UCL,
and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley.
M. Christine Boyer is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, at the
School of Architecture, Princeton University. She is the author of Le Corbusier, Homme de
Lettres (Princeton Architecture Press, 2011), CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of
Electronic Communication (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), The City of Collective
Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments (MIT Press, 1994),
Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850–1890 (Rizzoli, 1985) and Dreaming the
Rational City: the Myth of City Planning 1890–1945 (MIT Press, 1983). In addition, she has
written many articles and lectured widely on the topic of urbanism in the 19th and 20th centu-
ries. M. Christine Boyer received her Ph.D. and Master of City Planning from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She also holds a Master of Science in Computer and Information
Science from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Brown is Professor of Architecture and Head of Architecture at Plymouth University,
UK. He has over 20 years of experience in professional practice, having worked in urban regen-
eration and community development in the UK, USA, Africa and India. Recent publications
include articles in Traditional Settlements and Dwellings Review (2011) and Open House
International (2011), and with Daniel Maudlin he is editor of the forthcoming special issue of
the Journal of Architecture ‘Intentionally Incomplete’.
Stephen Cairns is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Edinburgh. He
is also the Scientific Co-ordinator of the Future Cities Laboratory, a research initiative of ETH
Zurich and the National Research Foundation of Singapore focused on urban sustainability in
a global frame.
Jiat-Hwee Chang, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley), is Assistant Professor at the Department of
Architecture, National University of Singapore. He has researched and published on colonial
and postcolonial architectural history, socio-technical dimensions of sustainable architecture and
design culture in Asia. He is the co-editor of Non West Modernist Past (World Scientific, 2011)
and a special issue of Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography on “tropical spatialities”
(2011).
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