{"product_id":"architectures-of-hiding-9781032412320","title":"Architectures of Hiding","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, \u003ci\u003elethe \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ealêtheia\u003c\/i\u003e, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eby\u003c\/i\u003e architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their \u003ci\u003ehidescapes  \u003c\/i\u003ethe constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking at and beyond the intentions and agency that architects possess, architectural spaces lend themselves as apparatuses for various forms of hiding and un(hiding). The examples explored in this book and the creative works presented in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This volume performs a masterful reveal of architecture’s masked motives and methods. Its elegant structure presents remarkably rich and diverse insights into architecture’s invisible agencies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie Van Duzer\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProfessor of Architecture, University of British Columbia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The editors have assembled a wide-ranging cast of scholars to account for the unaccounted. Aggregating terms with a family resemblance to the gerund 'hiding' – from camouflage to clutter, violence to veils – the authors discuss how buildings and builders actively occlude their own political, physical, and cultural orders. Interested in post-truth history and criticism of the built world? Then this is a book for you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Theodore\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003eMcGill University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At a time of greater enforcement of data protection principles for the personal information of individuals, this invaluable book delves into an essential topic: understanding the dynamics, the imaginative possibilities, the moral dilemmas and ethical responsibilities of concealment and revealment in architecture, its histories, theories, power structures and overlooked narratives.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophia Psarra\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProfessor of Architecture and Spatial Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Modes of Hiding: Veiled Devices Beyond the Gaze \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterlude 1: Verdures: Mimicry and Camouflage\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e1. Camouflage After the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes 2. Walls and Hidden Forms of Walling: The Production of Spatial Violence in Beirut 3. Hiding, Veiling and Transversing: Nubian \u003ci\u003eMadyafa \u003c\/i\u003ePost-Displacement 4. From Concealed Caves to Dis(Cover)ed Bunkers: Gaetano Pesce’s Pre-\/Post-Historical Atomic Shelter 5. Concealed Behind Transparencies: A Closer Look at Architecture’s Hidden Performativity Through the Barcelona Pavilion 6. Happy Schools: The Visible and Invisible in the Sven Lokrantz School and the Architecture of Special Education \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterlude 2: Deformative, Yet Silent \u003c\/i\u003ePart 2: Motives of Hiding: Disguised Narratives \u003ci\u003eInterlude 3: Avert \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e7. Hiding in Plain Sight: The White House Solarium and the Projection of History 8. \u003ci\u003eUrban Alibi \u003c\/i\u003eand Its Terms of Concealment: Cases From Shanghai 9. Hiding Behind Colonial Roots: Investigating the Reconstruction of the Palestinian Presidential Headquarters (the Muqata’a) in Ramallah 10. [Hidden Architecture]: The Paracontextual in Superstudio’s Project of Instrumentalizable Muteness 11. Architects’ Hidden Building Signatures 12. Clutter, Tidying and Architectural Desires \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterlude 4: Hidden Relics\u003c\/i\u003e Part 3: Concealed Apparatus: Latencies and Potentialities in Material Realities \u003ci\u003eInterlude 5: Yellow + Blue: An Apparatus for Fabricating Illusionary Architecture \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e13. Hiding in the Wings: A Culture of the Onlooker in Eighteenth-Century France 14. Principles of Masking: Wall Paintings by Thomas Schütte and Ludger Gerdes, Circa 1977 15. Concealment, Costume and Modern Architecture 16. Architecture, Infrastructure and Occlusion in Miami: The Network Access Point of the Americas 17. Drawn Lines Conceal Multitudes: The Hidden Traces of Time in Carlo Scarpa’s Drawn Factures for the Brion Memorial 18. Impossible Gag: Clues to a Hidden Reality in Winsor McCay’s and Buster Keaton’s Representations of Dreams \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterlude 6: A New Approach to Hidden History: The Reconstruction of History Through Nodal Spaces in the Ghost City of Lifta \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Coda: The Architecture of Hiddenness: Latency and Virtuality in the Topology of Concealment \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406667587927,"sku":"9781032412320","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032412320.jpg?v=1730496706","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/architectures-of-hiding-9781032412320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}