Description
Book SynopsisThe Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a definition of space that is heterogeneous (an object or system consisting of a diverse range of different items). An example of heterogeneous space, for instance, is Manhattan where complex and multiple social and technological conditions are overlaid. (This is to be contrasted with highly centralised and ordered Modernist cities.) With the onset of globalisation and the Web, heterogeneneous space, with its emphasis on differentiation, is more relevant to the contemporary condition, which encourages the mixing of space, than a much more static conception of Modernist space.
This book foregrounds spatial issues and the potential of heterogeneous space through a threefold strategy:
1)Its compilation of seminal essays on the discourse of heterogeneous space. These are to include previously published key texts by Reyner Banham, Andre
Table of Contents
Foreword (Michael Hensel, Christopher Hight and Achim Menges).
En Route: Towards a Discourse on Heterogeneous Space beyond Modernist Space-Time and Post-Modernist Social Geography (Christopher Hight, Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).
Questions of Space (Bernard Tschumi).
The Smooth and the Striated – The Mathematical Model (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari).
Mass Absence (Albert Pope).
Figures, Doors and Passages (Robin Evans).
Towards A New Architecture (Jeffrey Kipinis).
From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism (Stan Allen).
An Introduction to Unwelt (Jakob von Uexküll).
Environmental Management (Reyner Banham).
Putting Out the Fire with Gasoline: Parables of Entropy and Homeostasis from the Second Machine Age to the Information Age (Christopher Hight).
Atmospheric Politics (Peter Sloterdijk).
The Inside of Space: Some Issues Concerning Heterogeneity, the Interior and the Weather (Charles Rice).
The Heterogeneous Space of Morpho-Ecologies (Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).
Biographies.
Select Biography.
Index.
