CENTER 21
Subtitle: The Secret Life of Buildings
Publisher: Center for American Architecture and Design
Published: 2018-04-11
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780934951289
Description: "CENTER 21: The Secret Life of Buildings employs the nascent philosophies of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology to illuminate architecture as a peculiar set of objects, phenomena, relations, materials, and operations. Object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a philosophy that considers all objects (virtual or physical, large or small, singular or plural, closed or open) to be on equal ontological footing. Although it doesn't exclude humans, it treats them as just another set of objects. This volume explores OOO's significance to architecture, and possibly vice versa." --Publisher's description.