Architecture Otherhow

Practicing for a future which is not what it used to be
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5564-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book explores architecture otherhow at a time of political, environmental, and societal crisis. It addresses key issues in architecture from an engaged perspective, resituating architectural discourse within the interstitial space between design activism, ecology, pedagogy, feminism, and critical theory.

Otherhow calls for a radical shift in how we understand the world and act to transform it. Rather than adopting an oppositional discourse on ‘otherness’, otherhow opens up multiple possibilities for a committed (feminist) praxis in architecture that, even in challenging times, continues to ‘make it work’—with care and joy.

Drawing on 25 years of practice-based inquiry with atelier d’architecture autogérée and their collaborators, the author brings together references from contemporary theory and practice to situate her architectural approach in its current context.

She not only speaks about another architecture but also speaks in another way, suggesting how prefixes such as ‘de-’, ‘re-’, and ‘co-’, already present in architectural discourse, can be reworked into a kind of manifesto that points to the transformative practices needed today: re-claiming, re-subjectivation, re-politicizing, de-colonizing, re-imagining, re-commoning, re-valuing, co-re-generation, co-learning, and co-transforming.

Otherhow brings critical hope and seeks to empower the collective agency of architects to confront a difficult present and a future ‘which is not what it used to be’.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrescu, Doina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

‘Otherhow’ 1. Re-Claiming 2. Re-Subjectivation 3. Re-Politicizing 4. De-Colonizing 5. Re-Imagining 6. Re-Commoning 7. Re-Valuing 8. Co-Re-Generation 9. Co-Learning 10. Co-Transforming Otherhow-ing

Über Autor(innen)

Doina Petrescu is Professor Emerita of Architecture and Design Activism at the School of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Sheffield and co-founder of atelier d’architecture autogérée (aaa).