THE POLITICS OF MAKING

ISBN: 9780415488006

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A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective.
Taking a broad view of the word ‘politics’, the essays address

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2008

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A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective.
Taking a broad view of the word ‘politics’, the essays address a range of questions, including:

  • What is the relationship between politics and the making of space?
  • What role has theory played in reinforcing or resisting political power?
  • What are the political difficulties associated with working relationships?
  • Do the products of our making construct our identity or liberate us?

A timely volume, focusing on an interdisciplinary debate on the politics of making, this is valuable reading for all students, professionals and academics interested or working in architectural theory.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Mark Swenarton: Introduction

Part I: Politics of Cities

  • David Harvey: The freedom of the city
  • Brigitte Piquard: The politics of the West Bank Wall: symbolic violence and spaciocide
  • Kahina Amal Djiar: Politics and housing in 1950s French Algiers
  • Jianfei Zhu: A space of the state: Beijing 1949-59
  • Ahmed Zaib K. Mahsud: Representing the state: symbolism and ideology in Doxiadis’s plan of Islamabad
  • Iain Borden: The pleasures of driving: experiencing cities from the automobile
  • Lorenzo Romito: Campagna Romana: the formation of the Oltrecittà

Part II: Politics of Makers

  • Anthony Gerbino: Architectural theory in the service of the crown: the foundation of the Académie royale d’architecture 
  • Leonidas Koutsoumpos: The flute and the house: doing the architecture of making
  • Jason Alread: Ethical dilemmas and difficult collaborations: an architect’s view inside an award-winning but troubling project
  • Fiona Harrisson: Unsettling design: working between cultures in remote Western Australia
  • Robin Skinner: The Beehive: a difficult collaboration
  • Igea Troiani: Edited by Alison Smithson: the censored history of the ‘Team 10 family’
  • Albena Yaneva: Towards a new understanding of architecture of addition: the unrealised extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art

Part III: Politics of seeing

  • Stephen Kite: Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice
  • Jonathan Hill: Ambiguous objects: modernism, brutalism and the politics of the picturesque
  • Jane McAllister and Ben Stringer: Souvenirs of the architectural tourst: Ahmedabad framed
  • Helena Webster: Auschwitz State Museum: collective memory and the contested landscape
  • Aslihan Senel: Displacing topographies: making and reading Istanbul guidebooks
  • Ben Campkin: Down and out in London: photography and the politics of representing life in the Elephant, 1948-2005
  • Marwan Ghandour: The early American maps of Iowa and their politics
  • Stephen Walker: Making by stealing: the politics of Helen Chadwick’s ‘creative and manipulative theft’
  • Tony Fretton: The art of the plausible: some characteristics of architectural design

304 pages, b&w ills / 17,5 x 24,5 cm / English

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