Informal Architectures
Subtitle: Space and Contemporary Culture
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Published: May 20, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781906155339
Subjects: Theory of architecture; Criticism; Anthropology - Cultural; Architecture
Description: "[A] compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post-9/11.The work gathered here creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal, or fictional in order to critically analyse the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning technological imperatives and the monumental"--P. [4] of cover.