Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 338 g
A Paradigm at Work in Times of Crises
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 338 g
ISBN: 978-94-6270-465-7
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises
In architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have defined the discipline and its extended field. However, in recent decades, their frequency and radicality have surged from rather random, marginal and/or idiosyncratic phenomena. While their sudden rise can be explained as a reaction to the compulsive normativity of modernity, the deeper roots are to be sought elsewhere: the recent waves of transgressiveness are intimately linked to the hypercrisis affecting our world today – spanning ecological, political, economic, and social dimensions, and catalysing fundamental mutations and disorders. Some of these transgressive acts are motivated by a desire to dismantle a malfunctioning system, but more often than not breaking the rules has become an inherent survival tactic amid urgent social challenges. In our era of after-modernity, transgression emerges not just as an act of defiance, but reveals a new paradigm at work – a critical framework for reimagining the built environment, challenging established orders, and advocating for the rights of marginalised populations. Drawing on a rich array of theoretical insights and empirical case studies from multiple countries, this volume provides a unique, forward-looking perspective on transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speaking Transgression
in Times of Crises
Carmen Popescu
Part One: Recodifying Inhabiting: On So cietal Mutations and Resituating Margins
1 “The Single-Persons Project”: Council Housing Beyond the Nuclear Family
Savia Palate
2 The Representability of Interstitial Scenes
Sarah Mills and Simon Baker
3 On Relational Histories of Spatial Law and Transgression
Tiago Castela
4 On Weeds and Hospitality: An Architectural Point of View on (Bio)Diversity
Carmen Popescu
Part Two: Bending Politics: On Moving the Lines
5 Limit(ation)s: Squatting in Naldöken, Izmir
Gülsüm Baydar, Kivanc Kilinç, and Ahenk Yilmaz
6 Living with the Museum: Uses of Memory and the Normalization of Struggles
Leandro Peredo
7 Climbing Over, Stepping Across: Transgression as Lived Alternative in the Practice of Stalker
Patrick Düblin
8 Liminality as Transgression: The Urban Ritual of XR
Francesca Romana Dell’Aglio
Part Three: Deviating Theory: On Co ncepts and Devices
9 Transgression—Where Experience Meets with Concept? Tschumi’s “Paradox of Architecture” Revisited
Ole W. Fischer
10 Trapping, Dismembering and Crucifying Angels: Tracing the Sacred in Hejduk’s Bovisa
Jesse Rafeiro
11 Entwined Spaces of Boredom, Desire, and Transgression
Christian Parreno
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