Search results for ""Author Tahl Kaminer""
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency
A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the ‘starchitecture’ system and the focus on aesthetic innovation, a growing number of architects, emboldened by the 2007–8 economic crisis, have staged a rebellion against the dominant mode of architectural production. Against a ‘disinterested’ position emulating high art, they have advocated political engagement, citizen participation and the right to the city. Against the fascination with the rarefied architectural object, they have promoted an interest in everyday life, play, self-build and personalization. At the centre of this rebellion is the call for architecture to (re-)assume its social and political role in society. The Efficacy of Architecture supports the return of architecture to politics by interrogating theories, practices and instances that claim or evidence architectural agency. It studies the political theories animating the architects, revisits the emergence of reformist architecture in the late nineteenth century, and brings to the fore the relation of spatial organization to social forms. In the process, a clearer picture emerges of the agency of architecture, of the threats to as well as potentials for meaningful societal transformation through architectural design.
£153.00
JOVIS Verlag Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City
Urbanizing Suburbia erforscht die Beziehung zwischen drei aktuellen Prozessen in globalen Städten: Hyper-Gentrifizierung der Innenstädte, Finanzialisierung des Wohnens und strukturelle Veränderungen in Vororten. Die explodierenden Wohnungspreise in Großstädten haben zu einer enormen Abwanderung von Einwohner*innen aus den Innenstädten geführt, von denen sich viele in den Speckgürteln niedergelassen haben. Dieser demografische Wandel führt in Verbindung mit den spezifischen Sanierungsstrategien der Kommunen zu einer Neustrukturierung der Vorstädte. Die Publikation untersucht diese Veränderungen am Beispiel von vier europäischen Großstädten: Amsterdam, Berlin, London und Stockholm. Es ist ein erster Versuch, diese drei Prozesse innerhalb eines umfassenden Rahmens zu betrachten.
£31.50
