{"product_id":"writing-architectures-9781350236776","title":"Writing Architectures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays explores what happens when fiction, experimental writing and criticism are combined and applied to architectural projects and problems. It begins with ficto-criticism  an experimental and often feminist mode of writing which fuses the forms and genres of essay, critique, and story  and extends it into the domain of architecture, challenging assumptions about our contemporary social and political realities, and placing architecture in contact with such disciplines as cultural studies, literary theory and ethnography. These sixteen newly-written pieces have been selected for this volume to show how ficto-critical writing can be a powerful vehicle for creative architectural pra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA storybook about architectural storytelling, this important collection conveys well the powers of fiction to get us to things that can often seem more significantly real than the ‘facts’ as they are officially constituted and received. The authors, while retaining a keen sense of the contingency of their own writing, attend closely to questions of witness, the situatedness of experience and the ways in which the imagination can take flight from them, addressing what stories it matters to tell and the immanent critical charge that they carry. * Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK *\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary collection of writings where existential ideas about world orders migrate though different architectural and spatial typologies. Ficto-criticism allows multiplicity, simultaneity and disruption; it allows the reader to travel between different times, places and objects of investigation, enabling multiple connections and complex affinities based  on the extrusion of evidence to an event lingering between reality and fiction. * Lydia Kallipoliti, The Cooper Union, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrelude\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Prelude – the ways in which we write, \u003ci\u003eJane Rendell (UCL, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriting Architectures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Waking Ideas From Their Sleep: An introduction to ficto-critical writing in and of architecture, \u003ci\u003eHélène Frichot (KTH, Sweden) and Naomi Stead (Monash University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. From Site to Situation: Cutting up as fictocritical composition, Anna Gibbs \u003ci\u003e(Western Sydney University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Construction (and connection), Katrina Schlunke \u003ci\u003e(University of Tasmania and Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Incompossible Constructions of an Island Paradise, \u003ci\u003eHélène Frichot (KTH, Sweden)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Archaeologies of Exile on Trikeri Island: Listening to stones and speculating on prison matters, \u003ci\u003eElke Krasny and Phoebe Giannisi\u003c\/i\u003e 7. In which Robert Smithson visits Christchurch: Ficto-criticism and the field trip, \u003ci\u003eJacky Bowring (Lincoln University, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Hiroshima: Notes of the expanded field, \u003ci\u003eKim Roberts (Independent Scholar, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Writing Walking: Ficto-critical routes through eighteenth-century London, \u003ci\u003eEmma Cheatle (University of Sheffield, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. The Indelible Traces of Your Footsteps, Mireille Roddier \u003ci\u003e(University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Sydney Letters: A to E, \u003ci\u003eNaomi Stead (Monash University, Australia) and Katrina Schlunke (University of Tasmania and Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Outrage on Calle Alcalá, \u003ci\u003eScott Colman (Rice University, USA) and Lars Lerup (Rice Univeristy and University of California at Berkeley, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Architecture as Entourage: The politics of objects, \u003ci\u003eMichael Young (The Cooper Union, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. The Architect Who Couldn’t Write, \u003ci\u003eKeith Mitnick (University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Return to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Plot, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (University of Queensland, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. The Bannister, \u003ci\u003eKatrina Simon (RMIT University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 17. Nice House, Woodland Lakes, \u003ci\u003eAndrew Steen (University of Tasmania, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 18. The Door Left Ajar: On Dissident Waiting and Collective Fiction, \u003ci\u003eSepideh Karami (University of Edinburgh, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePostlude\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e 19. Postlude – Ficto-criticism after critique, \u003ci\u003eStephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742430757207,"sku":"9781350236776","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350236776.jpg?v=1758384927","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-architectures-9781350236776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}