AV 104: HOUSE BODY CRISIS

Description

CONTENTS

Cluster of Collections

• The Eye of the Architect and the Rubble of History
• The Surrounding Disorder
• Ways of Seeing
• Elegy of the Eye
• Skeptical Visions

House – Houses and Contexts

• The Elementary Life. Energy, Dwelling and Territory
• The Mutant Cabin
• Suburban Viruses
• American Beauty
• A Flat Planet
• Containers and Contents. The Dream of the House
• Domestic Scenes
• Classical Simulacra
• Containers Adrift
• Designer Dreams

Consumer Cities

• Urban Landscapes. Geometries of Movement
• Organic Agitations
• Modern Times
• Landscape on Wheels
• Paradoxes of Density
• Utopia and Facsimile. Between Babel and Disney
• Co-Opted Utopias
• Theme Cities
• Fairytales
• The World According to G.

Body – Corporal Concert

• Virtual Matter.The Fading of Flesh
• New Eve and New Adam
• Intangible Nudes
• The Fleeing Figure
• Frames and Signs
• The Naked Herd. Pain and Human Domestication
• Deconstruction of Pain
• Stories of the Hand
• Exposed Anatomies
• Animal Holocaust

Calm Catastrophes

• Accident and Formlessness. Bubbles in the Museum
• Frictions of Fracture
• Catastrophe and Exorcism
• Bubble of Blobs
• The Museum Fashion
• Architects on the Catwalk. Spectacle and Scale
• Works on Display
• Paper Architects
• Author and Audience
• Style against Scale

Crisis – Crepuscular Crises

• The Skyscraper and the Airplane. Metaphors of 9/11
• Frames of Horror
• Premonitions and Echoes
• Duel in the City Heights
• The Forms of Flight
• Logos in Conflict. Globalization and Cultural Clash
• The logic of Logos
• Geographies of Sunset
• Lights and Gravestones
• War Colors

Conflict Codes

• The Image of the Other. Conscience and the Media
• The Media Sphere, -Unveiled Women
• The West and the Other
• Dressed to Die
• Leaders, Flags, Victims. The Boundaries of the Planet
• The Great Game of Asia
• Babel against Babylon
• Raising Flags
• Wandering Identities

Epilogue – Choral Cameras

• Endless History and the Multitudes of the World
• The Crowd and the Void
• Unanimous Humanity
• Group Dynamics
• Spirits and Specters

136 pages, color ills / 24 x 30 cm / Spanish, English