Mapping Controversies in Architecture

Download or read book Mapping Controversies in Architecture written by Albena Yaneva and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture?It places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman, the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run between local and global, social and technical. Mapping controversies can be extrapolated to a wide range of complex phenomena of hybrid nature