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Architecture Post Mortem The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
266 Pages
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Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
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Routledge
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Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment... Read more
Introduction, DonaldKunze; Chapter 1 Driven into the Public: The Psychic Constitution of Space, ToddMcGowan; Chapter 2 Dead or Alive in Joburg, SimoneBrott; Chapter 3 Building In-Between the Two Deaths A Post Mortem Manifesto, NadirLahiji; Chapter 4 Kant, Sade, Ethics and Architecture, DavidBertolini; Chapter 5 Post Mortem: Building Destruction, Kazi KAshraf; Chapter 6 The Slow-Fast Architecture of Love in the Ruins, DonaldKunze; Chapter 7 Progress: Re-Building the Ruins of Architecture, GevorkHartoonian; Chapter 8, PeggyDeamer; Chapter 9 A Window to the Soul: Depth in Early Modern Section Drawing, PaulEmmons; Chapter 10, ErikaNaginski; Chapter 11 Architectural Asceticism and Austerity, DidemEkici; Chapter 12 900 Miles to Paradise, and Other Afterlives of Architecture, DennisMaher;
Biography
Edited by Kunze, Donald; Bertolini, David; Brott, Simone
Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2013 ’In the wake of global financial cataclysm and impending ecological catastrophe, architecture's role within the reproduction of contemporary capitalist relations has assumed a new urgency today. Collecting together a sparkling and adventurous series of essays, Architecture Post Mortem explores architecture's current confrontations with ruin, apocalypse and survival, in ways that provoke new political and theoretical questions at every turn.’ David Cunningham, University of Westminster, UK 'This collection of essays tracks the interaction of architecture’s literal and metaphorical deaths, says Jon Astbury ... there are some standout pieces, Simone Brott’s Dead or Alive in Joburg unpicks the 2009 film District 9 to reveal its parallels with South Africa’s urban realities and, consequently, the concept of violent urbanism'. Building Design Online
