Architecture and Affect

Precarious Spaces
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4724-5463-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architecture

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse?

Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such refrains to a concept of architecture wedged in the middle ground—jammed amidst life, things and events. Rather than being aloof from its surrounds, architecture-in-the-midst challenges an autonomous epistemology. Beyond accounting for the vivid but excluded, this book develops a frame and a disposition for thinking critically about, speculatively through, and being grounded by, encounter. Examining affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore, it details architecture’s uneasy but inextricable relationship with key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the scenic and the decorative. The outcome is a politicized architectural discourse simultaneously grounded and speculative; bridging depth and intuition, thinking and feeling.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chee, Lilian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Preface: Squinting from a Blindspot

Acknowledgements

Introduction- Knowing Otherwise: Architecture after affect

PART I: MONUMENT

Chapter 1: The Ruled and the Unruly: Animality, anecdotes and storytelling

Chapter 2: Tracing the Last Tiger The Third Archive

Chapter 3: After the Last Train: Remainders at the Tanjong Pagar Station

PART II: BLOCK

Chapter 4: Keeping Cats, Hoarding Things: Situations in the housing block

Chapter 5: Anarchiving Public Housing The Third Archive

Chapter 6: 03-FLATS: Architecture filmmaking, disciplinary questions

PART III: LANDSCAPE

Chapter 7: In the Midst of: Field notes at a cemetery

Chapter 8: Holes in the Ground The Third Archive

Chapter 9: The Sea, and the Sea: Infrastructure and the dialectical image



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lilian Chee is Associate Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the National University of Singapore, where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster. Her research revolves around architectural representation, affect theory, feminist politics, and creative practice methods. Her works include the award-winning essay film 03-FLATS (2014), the documentary Objects for Thriving (2022), and a co-edited book Remote Practices (2022). She leads a Social Sciences Research Council funded project about home-based labour. She writes on affect, architectural representation and domesticity.