1st Edition

Elements of Architecture Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces

Edited By Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sorensen Copyright 2016
462 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although... Read more

Into the Fog of Architecture
Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr Sørensen



On Behalf of Form: The view from archaeology and architecture
Graham Harman



Part I: Form and Temporality
On Shaping Buildings
Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr Sørensen



Immanent Architecture
Lesley K. McFadyen



Big Affects: Size, Sex and Stalinist ‘Architectural Power’ in Post-Socialist Warsaw
Michal Murawski



Architecture in Ruins: Palladio, Piranesi and Kahn
Jonathan Hill



Building Lives 
Gavin Lucas



Archaeologies of an Informal City: Temporal dimensions of contemporary Andean urbanism
Alison Kohn & Shannon Lee Dawdy



Brussels’ Conflicting Constructs
Mark Minkjan & Ingel Vaikla



Part II: Atmospheres
A Sense of Place
Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr Sørensen



Lighting up the Atmosphere
Tim Ingold



Traffic Architecture – Hidden affections
Jürgen Hasse



Affective Architecture in Ardnamurchan: Assemblages at three scales 
Oliver J. T. Harris



A Sense of Architecture in the Past: Exploring the sensory experience of architecture in archaeology
Serena Love
 
Part III: Performance and process
Architecture in Motion
Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr Sørensen



Politics of Architectural Imaging: Four ways of assembling a city
Albena Yaneva



Homeless, Home-Making, and Archaeology: ‘To be at home wherever I find myself’
Larry J. Zimmerman



Into Architecture: House-building and acentered personhood in Maputo, Mozambique
Morten Nielsen



Sedimentation and Sentiment: Destabilizing architecture at the post-industrial Mexican periphery
Jason Ramsey



Performance Architecture: Absence, place and action
Nick Kaye



Reframing the Ziggurat: Looking at (and from) ancient Mesopotamian temple towers
Augusta McMahon
       
Part IV: Disintegr

Biography

Mikkel Bille is Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, where his research centers on the role of things and technologies from the recent past in contemporary society.





Tim Flohr Sørensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, where his research is focused on archaeological theory and themes in prehistoric and contemporary archaeology.

"[...]the concepts worked with here are crucial to emerging ideas about atmosphere, the senses, movement, and assemblage in archaeology. If you are looking for new ways to think about the discipline and how we come to know things, this pretty, curious, and deliberately vague volume will be useful."
Dr. Corin C.O. Pursell, Gardener