1st Edition

Architectures of Existence Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

By Chris Younès Copyright 2024
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society. In Art et existence , Maldiney states: "For us, to inhabit is to exist". This book aims to unfold, extend, articulate and thicken this postulate by... Read more

Foreword by Benoît Goetz

Acknowledgements

Introduction: architecture as spatio-temporal articulation

I. Making the world as an act of the resisting against the unbearable

II. Trial by ordeal – the plague

III. Inheritance and disinheritance

IV. Inhabit and co-inhabit

V. Milieus-World

VI. Metamorphoses and utopias

VII. Sharing the places and spaces of the social contract

VIII. The event of the city and the aesthetic event

IX. Subversive resistance of Situationists

X. Women at the heart of human life

XI. Impossible house and existential poetics

XII. Eden and the planetary garden

XIII. The landscape as a common good

XIV. Biosophy and ecosophy

XV. The stakes involved in nature–culture co-rhythms

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Chris Younès is a professor at the ESA (École Spéciale d'Architecture) in Paris, France. Founder of the GERPHAU laboratory, she is currently president of the International Thematic Network PhilAU (Philosophy, Architecture, Urban). She is also a member of the Board of the European Association for Architectural Education and a founding member of ARENA, the Architectural Research Network.