عنوان

Architecture in abjection :

(Number (ISBN

978-1-78453-793-7

Number

1576812

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Architecture in abjection :

First Statement of Responsibility

Zuzana Kovar.

Title Proper by Another Author

bodies, spaces and their relations /

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 262 pages :

Other Physical Details

ill.

Series Title

International library of architecture ;

Volume Designation

2.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index

Text of Note

"This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew. Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture - which presents the body as subject and space as object - it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages with complementary and complex ideas from architecture, philosophy, feminist theory and other subjects, demonstrating how both bodies and bodily functions relate deeply to architecture. Extending philosopher Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection - the confrontation of one's own corporeality as something is excreted - Kovar finds parallels in the concept of the 'scaffold.' Much like living bodies and their products can impact on the buildings that house them - old skin cells create dust, menstrual blood stains, our breath heats and cools surfaces - scaffolding is similarly ephemeral and yet not entirely separable from the architecture it supports. Kovar shifts the conversation about abjection towards a more nuanced idea of architecture - where living organisms, building matter, space, decay and waste are all considered as part of a continual process - drawing on the key informing works of thinkers like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to do this. Including a number of experimental projects conducted in the spaces inhabited by the author herself to illuminate the theory at its core, the book forms a distinguished and pioneering study designed for practitioners and scholars of architecture, philosophy and visual culture alike" -- Amazon.com

Entry Element

Architecture --

Topical Subdivision

Philosophy.

Class number

Book number

Entry Element

Kovar,

Part of Name Other than Entry Element

Zuzana,

Relator Code

Author

Country

Iran

Agency

University of Tehran. Library of College of Fine Arts

Date of Transaction

20230417

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BL

270410

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