Author : Mona Mahall
Publisher : igmade.edition
ISBN 13 : 3000298762
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis How Architecture Learned to Speculate by : Mona Mahall
Download or read book How Architecture Learned to Speculate written by Mona Mahall and published by igmade.edition. This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic but also to political and aesthetic values. Values become mobile, valuations become a play with highs and lows, authors (architects) become winners or losers, and culture becomes fashion. Includes projects by NL Architects, MVRDV, Aristide Antonas, FAT, Ralf Schreiber, Pascual Sisto, Ant Farm, Caspar Stracke, OMA, JODI, Kevin Bauman and others. [From publisher's website].