The New Urban Condition: Criticism and Theory from Architecture and Urbanism

Synopsis

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are “post-critical,” this book seeks to expand the critical dimension of architecture and urbanism. In a series of historical and theoretical studies, this book examines how the materialities, forms, and practices of architecture and urban design can act as a critique towards the new urban condition. It proposes not only new concepts and theories but also instruments of analysis and reflection to better understand the current counter-hegemonic tendencies in both disciplinary strategies and appropriation tactics. The diversely international selection of chapters, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United States, and the Netherlands, combine different theoretical and empirical perspectives into a new analysis of the city and architecture. Demonstrating the need for new critical urban and architectural thinking that engages with the challenges and processes of the contemporary urban condition, this volume will be a thought-provoking read for academics and students in architecture, urban design, geography, political science, and more.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

298 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000363852

Related ISBNs:

9781003100362, 9780367607609, 9780367607593

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/08/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Leandro Medrano, Luiz Recaman, and Tom Avermaete

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Leandro Medrano

Edited by:

Luiz Recamán

Edited by:

Tom Avermaete