1st Edition

Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence

Edited By Ines Weizman Copyright 2014
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dissent within the architectural field. It expands the notion of dissidence to other similar practices and strategies of resistance, in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.The book also discusses how the gestures and techniques of past struggles, as well as ‘dilemmas’ of working in politically suppressive regimes, can help to inform those of today.

    This collection of essays from expert scholars demonstrates the multiple responses to this subject, the potential and dangers of dissidence, and thus constructs a robust lexicon of concepts that will point to possible ways forward for politically and theoretically committed architects and practitioners.

    Illustration Credits  List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction: Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence
    Ines Weizman  Part 1: Dissidence through Architecture  1. The Turning Point in 1978. Architects of the Tallinn School and their Late Socialist Public Andres Kurg  2. Bogdan Bogdanović: Dissident in Life, Architecture and Writing Gordana Korolija Fontana-Giusti  3. A Difficult Person for Socialism: Elemér Zalotay and his Strip Building Mariann Simon and Peter Haba  Part 2: Pedagogy as Site of Dissent  4. Playing in the Time of Normalisation: SIAL Školka’s Experiment and Architectural Dissidence Ana Miljački  5. Vilanova Artigas and the São Paulo School of Architecture Ana Maria Leon  6.Radical Remoteness—The HfG Ulm as Institution of Dissidence
    Anna-Maria Meister  Interview  Practicing in Palestine. Architecture between the Lines. Senan Abdelquader  Part 3: Possible Geographies of Architecture. Between Dissidence and Activism  7. Antigone’s Dissident Dustings: Coatings, Revolutions and the Circularity of Dust Teresa Stoppani  8. Gestures of Refusal in the Margins of New Babylon Jérémie Michael McGowan  9. Translocal Transmedia Citizenship Jonathan Massey and Brett Snyder  10. Mapping the Sea: Thalassopolitics and Disobedient Spatial Practices Lorenzo Pezzani  Part 4: Dissident Ecologies  11. Weather Dissidents: From Natura Naturans, to ‘Space’ and Back Again Helen Mallinson  12. Dissident Water: The Political Life of Rising Acid Mine Water Lindsay Bremner  13. Earthly Poison: Arsenic in the Bengal Delta Nabil Ahmed  14. The Third Degree: Interrogating the Scale of Climate Conflict Adrian Lahoud  Bibliography  Index

    Biography

    Ines Weizman is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and a Junior Professor of Architectural Theory at the Bauhaus University Weimar.