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Interdisciplinary in approach, this book combines philosophy, hybrid theory, and architectural theory with case studies, explicitly linking the traditions together to investigate the eco-aesthetics of the urban environment.
List of contents
Introduction, Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas
Part One: Metamodelling
Chapter 1, Andrew Ballantyne 'Ecologies of Fear and Desire'
Chapter 2, Gökhan Kodalak 'Are Architectural Modalities Alive?'
Chapter 3, Dulmini Perera 'Fun Machines: Rethinking Mess and Method in Architecture'
Intermezzo I: Priming
Yota Passia and Panagiotis Roupas 'An Index of Affective Mechanisms: Deciphering the Pre-Subjective Power of Spatial Assemblages'
Part Two: Asignifying Semiotics
Chapter 4, Renske van Dam 'Reversed Encounters: Constructing Life with Arakawa and Gins'
Chapter 5, Robert A. Gorny 'A Diagrammatic Cartography of Discourses: On Architectures Of Life And/or Death'
Chapter 6, Antonio Paoletti 'Lilacs Out of the Dead Land'
Intermezzo II: Primacy of Action
Renske van Dam, Cocky Eek, et al 'Moment Matters'
Part Three: Pedagogy of Senses
Chapter 7, Stavros Mouzakitis 'The First Crematory of Greece'
Chapter 8, Ayesha Sarfraz and Arsalan Rafique 'Necrotic Urbanism: A Critique of Violence And Resistance'
Chapter 9, Karin Reisinger 'Radically Alive: A Disappearing Mining Town at Europe's Margins'
Glossary
Index
About the author
Edited by Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas
Summary
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book combines philosophy, hybrid theory, and architectural theory with case studies, explicitly linking the traditions together to investigate the eco-aesthetics of the urban environment.
