Architecture as measure / Neyran Turan ; copyeditor Paula Woolley ; proofreader Matthew Abbate.

By: Turan, Neyran [author.]Contributor(s): Woolley, Paula [editor.] | Abbate, Matthew [proofreader.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Barcelona : Actar Publishers, 2019Description: 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781948765299 (paperback)Subject(s): Architecture and climate | Architecture -- Philosophy | ArchitectureLOC classification: NA2541 .T87 2019
Contents:
Another planetary: Measure for the anthropocene.
After nature, museum of lost volumes.
Geographic object, strait.
Matters around architetcure, nine ıslands.
Geology of media, digital rubbish, new cadavre exquis.
Planetary diorama as tableau, middle earth.
Territory as interior, flatbed junk.
Planetary theather, fake earths.
Wonder room as assembly, our junk, their ruin.
Subtlety as engagement, nine drawings, seven models, as built-as lived.
Subject: "In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment, beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Architecture as measure is an elaboration on the disciplinary and cultural potentials of such a provocation. It positions climate change as a cultural and political idea that requires a renewed architectural environmental imagination"--Back cover

"To Mete and Ali"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-293).

Another planetary: Measure for the anthropocene.

After nature, museum of lost volumes.

Geographic object, strait.

Matters around architetcure, nine ıslands.

Geology of media, digital rubbish, new cadavre exquis.

Planetary diorama as tableau, middle earth.

Territory as interior, flatbed junk.

Planetary theather, fake earths.

Wonder room as assembly, our junk, their ruin.

Subtlety as engagement, nine drawings, seven models, as built-as lived.

"In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment, beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Architecture as measure is an elaboration on the disciplinary and cultural potentials of such a provocation. It positions climate change as a cultural and political idea that requires a renewed architectural environmental imagination"--Back cover