Architecture and freedom : searching for agency in a changing world.
The issue is split into four sections. Featuring contributions by prominent architects Reinier de Graaf of OMA and Alejandro Aravena of Elemental, the first section focuses on the values that shape the practice of architecture, and the relevance, or otherwise, of moral principles or ethical codes an...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley,
2018.
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| Series: | Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ;
volume 88, issue 3. Architectural design profile ; 253. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Copyright Page; About the Guest-Editor; Introduction: Architecture and the Paradox of Freedom; Limits and Delimits; Balancing Freedoms; Crisis Conditions; Notes; (Un) Free Work: Architecture, Labour and Self-Determination; Barriers to Freedom; Abstraction; Architecture, Affect and Freedom; Notes; Limits to Freedom: Liberating Form, Programme and Ethics; Programme and Ethics; Spatial and Formal Strategies; Notes; Architecture's Internal Exile: Experiments in Digital Documentation of Adolf Loos's Vienna Houses; Fantasy Versus Utopia.
- From Documentary Mode to Speculative FutureProximate Sensing and Digital Tactility; Notes; Unlocking Pentonville: Architectural Liberation in Self-Initiated Projects; Locating Liberation; Escaping Architectural Confinement; Note; The Freedom of Being Three: The Art of Architectural Growing Up; Conception; Birth; Sitting Up; Learning to Walk; Sitting Up On the Shoulders of Giants; Learning From Others; Being Three; Freedom from the Known: Imagining the Future Without the Baggage of the Past; Reducing to the Max; New Building Technologies with Time-Tested Materials.
- Empowerment Through KnowledgeBringing Housing Back to the People; The Architect and the Personal Sense of Freedom; Note; Lessons from Launching an Alternative Architectural Practice; The Luxury of Academia; Endorsement by the Establishment; Self-Initiation and Research-Based Design in Practice; The Freedom of Aesthetics; The Fundamental Superfluous; The Expressive Imperative; The Tyranny of the Collective; The Terrible Beauty of the Contemporary; Notes; Freedom Via Soft Order: Architecture as a Foil for Social Self-organisation; Freedom, Foresight, Economy and Society.
- Architecture as Medium of Societal EvolutionThe Revolt Against Architecture; Architecture as Substrate for Self-organisation; Notes; The Paradox of Safety and Fear: Security in Public Space; Defensible Space; Secured by Design; Privatisation of Public Space; De-escalating Security; Notes; Seeds of Legacy: Hybrid and Flexible Spaces; Potentials of Space in School Design; C+S School Manifesto; Moulding Future Heritage; Notes; Wild Architecture: The Potential of Self-Build Settlements; PREVI, Lima; Walters Way; Oosterwold; Bungalow New Town; Notes.
- Cultivating Spaces to Take Risks: An Interview with the Royal Academy of Arts' Kate GoodwinDegrees of Freedom; Modes of Curating; Risks and Rewards; Notes; Shared Memories of a Possible Future: An Interview with Umbrellium's Usman Haque; A Prisoner's Dilemma; Shared Contexts; Counterpoint: The Omniscience and Dependency of Practice; Existential Threats; Systems of Accountability; Do We Need Architects?; Levers of Power and Influence; Notes; CONTRIBUTORS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: ARCHITECTURE AND FREEDOM; What is Architectural Design?; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORTHCOMING AD TITLES; EULA.