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Examining affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore, this book details architecture's uneasy but inextricable relationship with key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the scenic and the decorative.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface: Squinting from a Blindspot
Acknowledgements
Introduction- Knowing Otherwise: Architecture after affect
PART I: MONUMENT
Chapter 1: The Ruled and the Unruly: Animality, anecdotes and storytelling
Chapter 2: Tracing the Last Tiger | The Third Archive
Chapter 3: After the Last Train: Remainders at the Tanjong Pagar Station
PART II: BLOCK
Chapter 4: Keeping Cats, Hoarding Things: Situations in the housing block
Chapter 5: Anarchiving Public Housing | The Third Archive
Chapter 6:
03-FLATS: Architecture filmmaking, disciplinary questions
PART III: LANDSCAPE
Chapter 7: In the Midst of: Field notes at a cemetery
Chapter 8: Holes in the Ground | The Third Archive
Chapter 9: The Sea, and the Sea: Infrastructure and the dialectical image
Index
About the author
Lilian Chee is Associate Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the National University of Singapore, where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster. Her research revolves around architectural representation, affect theory, feminist politics, and creative practice methods. Her works include the award-winning essay film
03-FLATS (2014), the documentary
Objects for Thriving (2022), and a co-edited book
Remote Practices (2022). She leads a Social Sciences Research Council funded project about home-based labour. She writes on affect, architectural representation and domesticity.
Summary
Examining affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore, this book details architecture’s uneasy but inextricable relationship with key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the scenic and the decorative.
