Informal Architectures
Subtitle: Space and Contemporary Culture
Contributors: David Hoffos, Ryan Nordland, Mark Soo, Luanne Martineau, Eleanor Bond, Justin Beal, Lida Abdul, Andrew Kearney
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Black Dog Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, UK
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781906155339
Subjects: Architecture; Spatial theory; Contemporary art
Description: Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture is a compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spacial culture in modernity post 9/11. Contributors include established figures in the fields of cultural studies, art theory, urbanism and design.

Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture examines theories or and relations to space from descriptive, analytic and creative perspectives in a number of disciplines. It puts forward alternative strategies and criteria for the creation, representation and interpretation of space and its cultural implications. Informal Architectures features essays, artworks and images, with a particular interest in decay, monument, ruin, weakness, permanence, waste and consumption.
Table of contents: pagenum: 7
label: Anthony Kiendl
class: section
title: Introduction; pagenum: 8
title: Informal Architectures
class: part
label: Anthony Kiendl; pagenum: 32
label: Patrick Keiller
class: part
title: Popular Science; pagenum: 38
title: Center for Land Use Interpretation
class: part
label: CLUI; pagenum: 48
title: Emtiness and Imagination
class: part
label: Marie-Paule Macdonald; pagenum: 54
title: Wir Mienen
class: part
label: Knowles Eddy Knowles; pagenum: 56
label: Aoife Mac Namara
class: part
title: Bungalow Blitz; pagenum: 72
title: Research Photographs
class: part
label: Kim Adams; pagenum: 74
title: Termination of View
class: part
label: Bernie Miller; pagenum: 80
title: Corner Pieces (Banff)
class: part
label: Lance Blomgren; pagenum: 83
label: Dan Graham
class: part
title: Interview: Death by Chocolate; pagenum: 90
label: Donald Goode
class: part
title: Post-Present Architecture; pagenum: 98
label: Paul Antick
class: part
title: itourist?; pagenum: 110
label: Eyal Weizman
class: part
title: Evacuations: Decolonizing Architecture; pagenum: 120
label: Elle Flanders
class: part
title: What Isn't There; pagenum: 124
title: Lida Abdul: An Informal Architect
class: part
label: Sara Raza