Maldonado, Miguel Paredes,
Ugly, useless, unstable architectures : phase spaces and generative domains / Miguel Paredes Maldonado. - First published 2020. - xii, 217 pages : charts ; 25 cm. - Routledge Research in Architecture. . - Routledge Research in Architecture. .
"To Ana, Juan and Teo" Includes index (pages 214-217).
Why bother? New Materialism as a tool for reappraising the classical architectural canon -- Theoretical scaffold: Inverted Platonism and the theory of Models -- A matter of Structure -- From identification to differentiation. Introduction. The Ugly -- Classical Beauty as a model of identification -- Overcoming dualism: transgressing classical Beauty -- Deploying phase space as a continuous framework of evaluation -- Regions of non-compliance -- Strategies of departure from classical Beauty. The project of Ugliness: the trans-Beautiful as a productive domain. Use, Utility and the conflict of Uselessness -- Utility and the persistence of space and function relationships -- Transgressions of the classical canon of Usefulness -- A dimensional account of the limits of the Useful -- Non-compliance: potential vectors of trans-Utility -- Beyond a binary model of the Useful: phase space as a multidimensional range of processual systemsç The limits of the Useful: revising the operational framework of usefulness in architectural production. The Unstable -- Stability and time -- The problem of endurance: transgressions of classical Stability -- Operating far from classical Stability in phase space -- Organisational strategies: lines of flight manifesting the trans-stable in phase space. Unstable organisations: or the spatiotemporal processes of becoming. A brief summary -- Methodological and ontological implications -- The extended possibility spaces of the classical canon: Diagram, Process, Duration -- The ontological regimes of architectural production. Colophon: or the spatial regimes of architectural ontologies.
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism. It investigates how their unique 'ontological regimes' can be mobilised to supersede the classical framework that still informs both the production and the evaluation of architecture.
Throughout its three main chapters, this enquiry challenges one of the most prevalent tropes of architectural assessment: Beauty, Utility and Stability. Author Miguel Paredes Maldonado critically unpacks the spatial and operational qualities of these three idealised concepts, before setting out an alternative framework of spatial practice that draws from Gilles Deleuze's post-structuralist take on the production of the real and Manuel DeLanda's model-based branch of New Materialism. This book reads and situates a series of spatial works through the lens of this critical methodology to contest the conceptual aspects traditionally underpinning architectural 'value'. It posits that architecture can operate as a continuous, generative spectrum encompassing a broad range of potential configurations.
Written for academics and students in architectural theory, design and contemporary philosophical thought alike, this book should appeal to a wide audience.--backover. https://www.bookdepository.com/Ugly-Useless-Unstable-Architectures-Miguel-Paredes-Maldonado/9780367086220
9780367086220 9780429023415
Architecture--Philosophy
Architecture
NA2500 / .M276 2020
Ugly, useless, unstable architectures : phase spaces and generative domains / Miguel Paredes Maldonado. - First published 2020. - xii, 217 pages : charts ; 25 cm. - Routledge Research in Architecture. . - Routledge Research in Architecture. .
"To Ana, Juan and Teo" Includes index (pages 214-217).
Why bother? New Materialism as a tool for reappraising the classical architectural canon -- Theoretical scaffold: Inverted Platonism and the theory of Models -- A matter of Structure -- From identification to differentiation. Introduction. The Ugly -- Classical Beauty as a model of identification -- Overcoming dualism: transgressing classical Beauty -- Deploying phase space as a continuous framework of evaluation -- Regions of non-compliance -- Strategies of departure from classical Beauty. The project of Ugliness: the trans-Beautiful as a productive domain. Use, Utility and the conflict of Uselessness -- Utility and the persistence of space and function relationships -- Transgressions of the classical canon of Usefulness -- A dimensional account of the limits of the Useful -- Non-compliance: potential vectors of trans-Utility -- Beyond a binary model of the Useful: phase space as a multidimensional range of processual systemsç The limits of the Useful: revising the operational framework of usefulness in architectural production. The Unstable -- Stability and time -- The problem of endurance: transgressions of classical Stability -- Operating far from classical Stability in phase space -- Organisational strategies: lines of flight manifesting the trans-stable in phase space. Unstable organisations: or the spatiotemporal processes of becoming. A brief summary -- Methodological and ontological implications -- The extended possibility spaces of the classical canon: Diagram, Process, Duration -- The ontological regimes of architectural production. Colophon: or the spatial regimes of architectural ontologies.
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism. It investigates how their unique 'ontological regimes' can be mobilised to supersede the classical framework that still informs both the production and the evaluation of architecture.
Throughout its three main chapters, this enquiry challenges one of the most prevalent tropes of architectural assessment: Beauty, Utility and Stability. Author Miguel Paredes Maldonado critically unpacks the spatial and operational qualities of these three idealised concepts, before setting out an alternative framework of spatial practice that draws from Gilles Deleuze's post-structuralist take on the production of the real and Manuel DeLanda's model-based branch of New Materialism. This book reads and situates a series of spatial works through the lens of this critical methodology to contest the conceptual aspects traditionally underpinning architectural 'value'. It posits that architecture can operate as a continuous, generative spectrum encompassing a broad range of potential configurations.
Written for academics and students in architectural theory, design and contemporary philosophical thought alike, this book should appeal to a wide audience.--backover. https://www.bookdepository.com/Ugly-Useless-Unstable-Architectures-Miguel-Paredes-Maldonado/9780367086220
9780367086220 9780429023415
Architecture--Philosophy
Architecture
NA2500 / .M276 2020