1st Edition

Relational Architectural Ecologies Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity

Edited By Peg Rawes Copyright 2013
320 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the ‘habitats’, ‘natural milieus’, ‘places’ or ‘shelters’ that construct architectural ecologies are composed of complex and dynamic... Read more

Introduction Peg Rawes  Part 1: Biopolitical Ecologies and Architectures  1. Posthuman Relational Subjectivity and the Politics of Affirmation Rosi Braidotti  2. Architectural Ecologies of Care Peg Rawes  3. Diagramming Control Nathan Moore  Part 2: Uncertain, Anxious and Damaged Ecologies  4. ‘Manufactured Uncertainty’: Epistemologies of Mastery and the Ecological Imaginary Lorraine Code  5. Fear, the Sublime and Sheltered Difference Rachel Jones  6. Bonjour Tristesse David Cross  Part 3: Economics, Land and Consumption  7. Beyond Consumerism: Reflections on Gender Politics, Pleasure and Sustainable Consumption Kate Soper  8. Economization of Life: Calculative Infrastructures of Population and Economy Michelle Murphy  9. The Ecology, Economy, and Politics of the ‘One’ in Food Culture Gail Schwab  Part 4: Biological and Medical Architectural Ecologies  10. Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection: Irigarayan Reflections on Darwin Elizabeth Grosz  11. ‘Between the womb and the world’: Building Matrixial Relations in the NICU Katie Lloyd Thomas  12. The Global Healthcare Biome and Building the Ecological Medical School Anita Berlin  Part 5: Communal Ecologies and Architectures  13. The Social Handprint: Decentring the Politics of Sustainability after an Urban Disaster Bronwyn Hayward  14. Movement and Stasis: Shifting Subjectivities on the Mongolian Border Rebecca Empson  15. Gardeners of Commons, for the most part, women Doina Petrescu  16. The Ecological Relation Verena Conley

Biography

Peg Rawes is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London. Her teaching and research focus on interdisciplinary links between architectural design, philosophy, technology and the visual arts. Publications include: Space, Geometry and Aesthetics (2008) and Irigaray for Architects (2007).