Creative Ecologies: Theorizing the practice of architecture

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Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects – to iconic buildings and big-name architects – she instead explores the background of architectural practice, to introduce the creative ecologies in which architecture exists only in relation to other objects and ideas. Consisting of a series of philosophical encounters with architectural practice that are neither neatly located in one domain nor the other, this book is concerned with ‘other ways of doing architecture’. It examines architecture at the limits where it is muddied by alternative disciplinary influences – whether art practice, philosophy or literature. Frichot meets a range of creative characters who work at the peripheries, and who challenge the central assumptions of the discipline, showing that there is no ‘core of architecture’ – there is rather architecture as a multiplicity of diverse concerns in engagement with local environments and worlds. From an author well-known in the disciplines of architecture and philosophy for her scholarship on Deleuze, this is a radical, accessible, and highly-original approach to design research, deftly engaging with an array of current topics from the Anthropocene to affect theory, new materialism contemporary feminism. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Table of contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue Story one: Maria Reiche - Surveying Introduction: Ecologies of creative practice Part One Environment-worlds 1 Environments Environments Environmentalities Worlds and worlding Environment-worlds Practice scene: tacit, taciturn,.Tacita 2 Ecologies An ecology of practices Ecologies of creative practices Practice scene: Katla Maríudóttir’s volcano Exhaustion: of environment-worlds Part Two Things 3 Object oriented Story two: Agnès Varda – gleaning Things Rock, grotto, inscrutable thing Hyperobjects Object-oriented things OOPs! OOOh, no! Practice scene: Chelle Macnaughtan’s Trottoirs Thing-power 4 Thing-power Object-oriented democracy Architectural.things An entangled web of things Practice scene: Julieanna hauls mud Onflows, through-flows and things Exhaustion: of things Part Three Thinkables 5 Noology Story three: Zoë Sofia (Sofoulis) – unthinkables Thinkables Noology Noopolitics Noourbanography Practice scene: Michelle Hamer follows one stitch at.a.time 6 Concept-tools Image of Thought Thinkables Concept-tools Practice scene: Michael Spooner’s A Clinic for the Exhausted Exhaustion: of the concept Conclusion: Practice scene: Margit Brünner’s.joys Exhaustion, beatitude Practice scene: Camilla Damkjaer’s handstand After-affect: beatitude,.joy Bibliography Index