Affect, architecture and practice : toward a disruptive temporality of practice / Akari Nakai Kidd.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021Description: 175 pages, 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138487505
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Affect, architecture and practiceDDC classification:
  • 720.1 N35 2021 23
Contents:
Space of affect -- Time of affect -- Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC: Kaohsiung Port Terminal -- Kerstin Thompson Architects: Monash University Museum of Art -- Shigeru Ban Architects: Christchurch Transitional Cardboard Cathedral -- Conclusion: Life of architecture and afterlife of affects.
Summary: "Affect, Architecture and Practice, builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that has risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research. Although numerous studies have examined how affect emerges in architectural spaces, little attention has been paid to the creative process of architectural design and the role that affect plays in the many contingencies and uncertainties that arise in the process. The book traces the critical, philosophic and architectural theories to examine how affect, architecture, and practice are interlinked. Through a series of conversations and reflections, it examines three key contemporary architects, their practices and projects, all within a single coherent theme. Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architecture DPC), USA, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Australia, and Shigeru Ban Architects, Japan, are critically studied through the lens of different aspects of practice, namely image-making, the design process, and the making of an everyday object/material. Through this investigation, author Akari Nakai Kidd demonstrates how affect theory allows a critical interrogation of the in-betweens of practice, its liminality and limits. It questions the stability of objects, the smooth temporality of practice, and its often under conceptualised nonhuman dimensions. More significantly, the book demonstrates architectural practice's contribution to the reconceptualization of theories of affect"-- Provided by publisher.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Victoria University of Wellington, 2015) under title: Architecture, affect and architectural practice.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Space of affect -- Time of affect -- Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC: Kaohsiung Port Terminal -- Kerstin Thompson Architects: Monash University Museum of Art -- Shigeru Ban Architects: Christchurch Transitional Cardboard Cathedral -- Conclusion: Life of architecture and afterlife of affects.

"Affect, Architecture and Practice, builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that has risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research. Although numerous studies have examined how affect emerges in architectural spaces, little attention has been paid to the creative process of architectural design and the role that affect plays in the many contingencies and uncertainties that arise in the process. The book traces the critical, philosophic and architectural theories to examine how affect, architecture, and practice are interlinked. Through a series of conversations and reflections, it examines three key contemporary architects, their practices and projects, all within a single coherent theme. Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architecture DPC), USA, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Australia, and Shigeru Ban Architects, Japan, are critically studied through the lens of different aspects of practice, namely image-making, the design process, and the making of an everyday object/material. Through this investigation, author Akari Nakai Kidd demonstrates how affect theory allows a critical interrogation of the in-betweens of practice, its liminality and limits. It questions the stability of objects, the smooth temporality of practice, and its often under conceptualised nonhuman dimensions. More significantly, the book demonstrates architectural practice's contribution to the reconceptualization of theories of affect"-- Provided by publisher.

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