Sara / Mosley The Architecture of Transgression

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-75907-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Architectural Design

Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms andradically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries ofboth what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. Thecurrent economic crisis and accompanying political/social unresthas exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has longbeen sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture ofconservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized statusas one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up newpossibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact thatworking on the architectural periphery can make on the mainstream,as transgressive practices have the potential to reinvent andreposition the architectural profession: whether they aresubverting notions of progress; questioning roles and mechanisms ofproduction; aligning with political activism; pioneering urbaninterventions; advocating informal or incomplete development;actively destabilising environments or breaking barriers of taste.In this new dispersed and expanded field of operation, the balanceof architectural endeavour is shifted from object to process, fromservice to speculation, and from formal to informal in a way thatprovides both critical and political impetus to proactively affectchange.
Contributors: Can Altay, Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren, KimDovey, Chris Jenks, David Littlefield, Silvia Loeffler, AlistairParvin, Louis Rice, Patrik Schumacher and Robin Wilson
Featured architects: atelier d'architectureautogérée, Lina Bo Bardi, Construire/La Machine, EXYZT,Didier Faustino/Bureau des Mésarchitectures, Lacaton &Vassal, N55, Catie Newell/*Alibi Studio, Wang Shu, Superflex andBernard Tschumi

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sara, Rachel

Mosley, Jonathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

5 EDITORIAL
Helen Castle
6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
8 SPOTLIGHT
Visual highlights of the issue
14 INTRODUCTION
The Architecture of Transgression: Towards a DestabilisingArchitecture
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
20 Transgression: The Concept
Chris Jenks
24 Extenuating Circumstances: Salvaged Landscape
Catie Newell
32 Architecture and Transgression: An Interview with BernardTschumi
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
38 Transgression and Progress in China: Wang Shu and theLiterati Mindset
Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren
44 Not Doing/Overdoing: 'Omission' and'Excess' -Lacaton & Vassal's Place LéonAucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel, ScèneNationale de Calais, Calais
Robin Wilson