Description
In a world that is missing a central theoretical voice in architecture, now more than ever it is time to solicit emergent voices on the topic of‘alternative formalisms’(Alt-Form). This issue of AD aims to reach peripheral disciplines in order to support an architecture that no longer operates as a standalone field of study, and is rather one that responds to broader, urgent and pluralistic cultural shifts.
In the existing contemporary landscape of visually oriented fields of study, casual compositions and other formless expressions have begun to re-emerge, particularly in the disciplines of art, architecture and popular image culture. In architecture, with the rise of the digital, the last two decades have witnessed a field in pursuit of novel styles through the use of the latest digital tools. More recently, however, over the last five years or so, the field has experienced a more novelty-apathetic attitude, permeated with project proposals that resist the urge to offer immediate solutions in favour of enmeshment with a contemporary condition characterised by duress, destruction, uncertainty and other formless becomings. This AD explores this new, emerging world.
Contributors: Suzanne Cotter, Andrew Culp, Jack Halberstam, Jeff Halstead, Carolyn Kane, Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, Carl Lostritto, Thom Mayne, V Mitch McEwen and Kristina Kay Robinson, Anna Neimark, Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, Dorina Pllumbi, Faysal Tabbara, and Dalena Tran.
Featured architects: AGENCY, Architecture and Other Things, Atelier Office, Dream the Combine, First Office, MIRACLES, and Morphosis.
CONTENTS
About the Guest-Editor / Viola Ago
Introduction
Embracing Uncertainty. How Policies Shape the World / Viola Ago
Chaos, Creativity, Change. The Cybernetic Logic of Late Capitalism / Andrew Culp
Architectonisation. The Spatio-Temporal Rhythms of Contemporary Sculptural Practices / Suzanne Cotter
Kombinat. The Unseen and Their Architectural Oddkins / Dorina Pllumbi
Painterly, Misft and Redundant. Challenging Precision and Optimisation with Scavenging / Faysal Tabbarah
Moving Pictures. Three Installations for Public Life / Jennifer Newsom
Heavyweight . Undermining Power Structures Through Spatial Destabilisation and Force Simulation / Jeffrey Halstead
Rude Forms Among Us. Contemporary Construction of Prehistoric Ruins / Anna Neimark
‘Strange Networks’ Inhabiting the Boundary Condition. A Conversation with Thom Mayne / Viola Ago
Chromophobia in the ‘Smart’ City / Carolyn L Kane
Images of Former. Futures and Reformations / Dalena Tran
Rendering Representational Atmosphere. Appropriating Formalisms Around Invisible Objects in Film / Carl Lostritto
Signature Urbanism. Shaping Subperceptual Forms for the New Multispectral City / Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller
Rebellious Architecture. Bayou Reconstructed / V Mitch McEwen and Kristina Kay Robinson
An Aesthetic of Collapse . Alternative Form, Disorder and Indeterminacy. A Conversation with Jack Halberstam / Viola Ago
From Another Perspective. Sculpting the Forest of Symbols / Nick Ervinck, Neil Spiller
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