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1st Edition

Latour for Architects

By Albena Yaneva Copyright 2022
154 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘flourished’ in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade, Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers... Read more

Series Editor’s Preface

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction: ‘In this World’

  2. Rethinking the Modern Constitution

    3. Are We Modern?

    The Promises of Symmetrical Anthropology

    Non-modern Architects

  3. Science in the Making

    4. Matters of Facts as End Product

    Hot and Cold Science

    Discoveries: The Diffusion and the Translation Models

    Speaking Scientifically, Speaking Legally

    Mapping Controversies

  4. How Technology Shapes Everyday Life

    5. A Socio-Technical Approach to Mundane Artefacts

    Projects and Failure

  5. Actor-Network Theory

    6. Society or the Making of the Social

    An ANT Approach to Architecture

  6. Space and Spacing

    7. Process and the Construction of Space

    Spacing　

  7. Invisible Cities

    8. Paris for Millions

    Traversing

    Proportioning

    Distributing

    Allowing

    How to Study Invisible Cities?　

  8. The Parliament of Things

    9. Object-Oriented Politics

    Cosmos and Cosmopolitics

    Cosmopolitical Design

  9. A Gaia Who Cares

The Intrusion of Gaia

Architectural Contributions to Gaia-graphy

　

Further Reading

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Albena Yaneva is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of several books, including Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (2020) and The New Architecture of Science: Learning from Graphene (2020), co-authored with Sir Kostya S. Novoselov. Her work has been translated into nine languages. Yaneva is the recipient of the RIBA President’s award for outstanding research.

"Don’t get fooled by the title of Albena Yaneva’s book "Latour for Architects". It is a quick, lively and precise introduction of my work for lots of other professional bodies and academics. This is the best presentation of my entire work that I am aware of."

Bruno Latour, Emeritus Professor at Science Po, Paris, France

"At a moment when more and more designers conceive of form as interplay rather than shape and outline, Latour for Architects further extends research and practice beyond the limits of the profession and into new disciplinary coalitions that are increasingly giving authority to spatial variables."

Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture, Yale University, School of Architecture, USA

"Albena Yaneva does an outstanding job in presenting Latour’s most important ideas and deserves praise for organizing them in such an accessible manner. Regarding the task of explanation, the book is impressive."

Robert A. Beauregard, Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA

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