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Book SynopsisTransgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has long been sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture of conservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized status as one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up new possibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact that working on the architectural periphery can make on the mainstream, as transgressive practices have the potential to reinvent and reposition the architectural profession: whether they are subverting notions of progress; questioning roles and mechanisms of production; aligning with political activism; pioneering urban interventions; advocating informal or incomplete development; actively destabilising environm
Table of Contents
5 EDITORIAL
Helen Castle
6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
8 SPOTLIGHT
Visual highlights of the issue
14 INTRODUCTION
The Architecture of Transgression: Towards a Destabilising Architecture
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
20 Transgression: The Concept
Chris Jenks
24 Extenuating Circumstances: Salvaged Landscape
Catie Newell
32 Architecture and Transgression: An Interview with Bernard Tschumi
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
38 Transgression and Progress in China: Wang Shu and the Literati Mindset
Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren
44 Not Doing/Overdoing: ‘Omission’ and ‘Excess’ -Lacaton & Vassal’s Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire’s Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais
Robin Wilson
