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.
Introduction 1 Contemporary Architecture, Crisis and Critique Part I
Designs 2 Public Face and Private Space in the Design of Contemporary Houses
3 Designs on Disaster: Architecture and Humanitarianism 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 China6 After the Countermonument:
Commemoration in the Expanded Field Part II Materiality 7 Architecture of
Memory, Past and Future 8 Life and Death in the Anthropocene: A Short History
of Plastic 9 The Space of Relations: Body, Emotion and Empathy in
Architectural Experience 10 Edges: Body, Space, and Design 11 Habits
Remainder 12 Ephemeral Architecture: Toward Radical Contingency Part III
Alterity 13 Inhabiting Ruins: Architecture and the Limits of Occupation in
Liberia 14 Borderlands Architecture: Territories, Commons and Breathing
Spaces 15 Camps: Contemporary Environments of Autonomy, Necessity, and
Control 16 Defensive Alterity in Contemporary SriLankan Architecture 17
Recasting
Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge 2005); Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (Minnesota 2012); and co-editor of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge 2014).
Jeremy White is an architect and a game designer, and a lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-editor of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge 2014).
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