The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture

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The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Contemporary Architecture, Crisis, and Critique Part I: Design 2 Public Face and Private Space in the Design of Contemporary Houses 3 Designs on Disaster: Humanitarianism and Contemporary Architecture 4 Architectures of Risk and Resiliency: “Embedded Security” in the Redesign of Sandy Hook Elementary School 5 When the Megaproject Meets the Village: Formal and Informal Urbanization in Southern China 6 After the Counter-monument:Commemoration in the Expanded Field Part II: Materiality 7 Architectures of Memory, Past and Future 8 Life and Death in the Anthropocene 9 The Space of Relation: Body, Emotion, and Empathy in Architectural Experience 10 Edges: Body, Space, and Design 11 Habit’s Remainder 12 Ephemeral Architecture: Toward Radical Contingency Part III: Alterity 13 Inhabiting Ruins: The Ministry of Defense and the Limits of Occupation in Monrovia, Liberia 14 Border Architecture: Territories, Commons, and Breathing-Spaces 15 Camps: Contemporary Environments of Autonomy, Necessity, and Control 16 Defensive Alterity in Contemporary Sri Lankan Architecture 17 Recasting the Ethnic Retail Street: Analyzing Contemporary Immigrant Architecture in the United States Part IV: Technologies 18 Obsolescence and Its Futures 19 Intelligent Architectural Settings 20 Future Architecture: Biohybrid Structures and Intelligent Materials 21 Networked Urbanism: Definition, Scholarship, Directions 22 The Architecture of Water Part V: Cityscapes 23 What Might Be: Re-describing Urbanscapes of the Global South 24 Watching the City: A Genealogy of Media Urbanism 25 The Singapore Flyer: View, Movement, Time, and Contemporaneity 26 Bi-Space: The Original Social Networking Site 27 Urchins in the Infrastructure: Building with Hedgehogs in the Multispecies City 28 Unsettling Formal Power Systems Part VI: Practice 29 Is It Really that Bad? The Status of Women in Architecture and the Gender Equity Movement 30 Where Is the Social Project? 31 Collaboration: Unresolved Forms of Working Together in Contemporary Architectural Practice 32 Starchitecture: Starchitect 33 A Eulogy for the Present: The Death of Architecture, c.2000 Exhibition 34 Architects “Getting Real”: On Present-Day Index