The Production Sites of Architecture

Author:   Sophia Psarra (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138559431


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   29 January 2019
Format:   Hardback
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The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our understanding of architectural knowledge? Featuring essays from an international range of scholars, the book accepts that everything about the production of architecture has social significance. It focuses on two areas: firstly, relationships of spatial configuration, form, order and classification; secondly, the interaction of architecture and these notions with other areas of knowledge, such as literature, inscriptions, interpretations, and theories of classification, ordering and invention. Moving beyond perspectives which divide architecture into either an aesthetic or practical art, the authors show how buildings are informed by intersections between site and content, space and idea, thought and materiality, architecture and imagination. Presenting illustrated case studies of works by architects and artists including Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, OMA, Koen Deprez and John Soane, The Production Sites of Architecture makes a major contribution to our understanding of architectural theory.

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Author:   Sophia Psarra (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9781138559431


ISBN 10:   1138559431
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   29 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Arcitecture as a Many-Part System Part I: Imagination 1 A Monument to a Ruin 2 Within the Cimeras: Spaces of Imagination Part II: Worldmaking 3 The Scholar-collector as a Site of Production: Spatial and Imaginative Intersections in Soane and Freud’s Spaces and Private Collection 4 Book-Worlds and Ordering Systems as Sites of Invention Part III: Mediations 5 Buildings as Sites for the Production of Architectural Knowledge: Reflections on Replicas in Istanbul, Dresden and Las Vegas 6 The Production Sites and Production Sights of New Broadcasting House Part IV: Intersections 7 Fictional Sites of Architecture/Architectural Sites of Fiction 8 When Does Space Afford a Fleeting and Contingent View of You? Part V: Re-appropriations 9 The Burned Map: Military Theory and Architectural Education 10 A Return to the Production of Annotation

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Sophia Psarra is Professor at the Bartlett, University College London, UK. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. Her research explores the relationship between spatial characteristics, use, social relations and cultural meaning. Psarra has collaborated on the relationship between layout, exhibition narratives and visitors’ experience with cultural institutions such as the MoMA in New York and the Natural History Museum in London. She has won first prizes in international architectural competitions and her work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, the George Pompidou Center, NAI Rotterdam, and in London, Berlin, Milan and Athens. She is the author of Architecture and Narrative (2009) and The Venice Variations (2018).

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