Architecture And Mortality

Author : Donald Kunze,David Bertolini,Simone Brott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317179085

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Architecture Post Mortem by Donald Kunze,David Bertolini,Simone Brott Pdf

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment wherein architecture’s symbolic contract with capital is put on stage, naked to all. Architecture is not irrelevant to fiscal and political contagion as is commonly believed; it is the victim and penetrating analytical agent of the current crisis. As the very apparatus for modernity’s guilt and unfulfilled drives-modernity’s debt-architecture is that ideological element that functions as a master signifier of its own destruction, ordering all other signifiers and modes of signification beneath it. It is under these conditions that architecture theory has retreated to an 'Alamo' of history, a final desert outpost where history has been asked to transcend itself. For architecture’s hoped-for utopia always involves an apocalypse. This timely collection of essays reformulates architecture’s relation to modernity via the operational death-drive: architecture is but a passage between life and death. This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf, David Bertolini, Simone Brott, Peggy Deamer, Didem Ekici, Paul Emmons, Donald Kunze, Todd McGowan, Gevork Hartoonian, Nadir Lahiji, Erika Naginski, and Dennis Maher.

Author : Brian Azzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1401215521

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Architecture and Mortality by Brian Azzarello Pdf

The Architects--shapers of the universe--don't have room for misfits in their new world order. Can professional debunker Docotr 13 unmask their secret? And if he does, will even he believe it? Find out as Doctor 13 heads out on a quest to meet his maker accompanied by a talking Nazi gorilla, a flying pirate, an oh-so-'80s vampire, a cosmic heroine with a constant runny nose, a caveman frozen in ice, the tank-driving ghost of a Confederate general, a mysterious boy who can answer any question for the price of one thin dime, and the Doctor's own witchcrafty daughter.

Author : Donald Tarantino
Publisher : bd-studios.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781950231003

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Architecture and Mortality by Donald Tarantino Pdf

Donald Tarantino (b.1962) was a queer artist who studied at Philadelphia College of Art and later settled in New York City, where he became part of the East Village scene of the 1980s. Working mostly as a printmaker, his art explores the intersection between cities and suburbia, shifting between office buildings and domestic spaces. His images examine the structures we inhabit, interweaving the anxieties they cause, and the joys they elicit. His late prints were inspired by the isolated rooms and hallways of the St. Vincent’s AIDS ward, driving home a sense of mortality that loomed all too close. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1988. Architecture and Mortality collects his surviving prints, drawings, and other work and is the only published overview of the artist.

Author : Brian Azzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1401215521

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Architecture and Mortality by Brian Azzarello Pdf

The Architects--shapers of the universe--don't have room for misfits in their new world order. Can professional debunker Docotr 13 unmask their secret? And if he does, will even he believe it? Find out as Doctor 13 heads out on a quest to meet his maker accompanied by a talking Nazi gorilla, a flying pirate, an oh-so-'80s vampire, a cosmic heroine with a constant runny nose, a caveman frozen in ice, the tank-driving ghost of a Confederate general, a mysterious boy who can answer any question for the price of one thin dime, and the Doctor's own witchcrafty daughter.

Author : David Watkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226874834

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Morality and Architecture Revisited by David Watkin Pdf

When Morality and Architecture was first published in 1977, it received passionate praise and equally passionate criticism. An editorial in Apollo, entitled "The Time Bomb," claimed that "it deserved to become a set book in art school and University art history departments," and the Times Literary Supplement savaged it as an example of "that kind of vindictiveness of which only Christians seem capable." Here, for the first time, is the story of the book's impact. In writing his groundbreaking polemic, David Watkin had taken on the entire modernist establishment, tracing it back to Pugin, Viollet-le-Duc, Corbusier, and others who claimed that their chosen style had to be truthful and rational, reflecting society's needs. Any critic of this style was considered antisocial and immoral. Only covertly did the giants of the architectural establishment support the author. Watkin gives an overview of what has happened since the book's publication, arguing that many of the old fallacies still persist. This return to the attack is a revelation for anyone concerned architecture's past and future.

Author : Brian Azzarello
Publisher : DC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401252694

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Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality by Brian Azzarello Pdf

Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang join forces to tell the adventures of Dr. Terrence Thirteen, a parapsychologist who disproves reports of supernatural activity. In this story collected from TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #1-8, Dr. Thirteen rounds up a group of the world's magical beings to prevent strange forces from tearing asunder the very fabric of the past, present, and future!

Author : David Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226874877

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Morality and Architecture by David Watkin Pdf

Morality and architecture has been described variously as brave, mischievous, brilliant, reactionary, and a 'time bomb'. It is undoubtedly controversial--a frank and at times fearlessly polemical exposure of progressivist ideology in architectural criticism.

Author : Catherine Russell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816624860

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Narrative Mortality by Catherine Russell Pdf

What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s. Analyzing the structural importance of death in narrative endings, as well as the thematics of loss and redemption, Russell identifies mortality as a valuable critical tool for understanding the cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Her work includes close textual readings of films by Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Oshima Nagisa, Jean-Luc Godard, and Robert Altman, among others. In these analyses, Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire. Drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, she shows us death as a fundamentally allegorical structure in cinema - and as a potential sign of historical difference, with crucial implications for theories of film narrative and spectatorship. "Narrative Mortality" provides an insight into the dynamics of postmodern cinema as it emerged from the modernist preoccupation with existential mortality. By tracing the role of death from a work that precedes the Brechtian cinema of the 60s ("Beyond a reasonable doubt") to several that succeed it ("Nashville", "The State of things"), the book expands the narrative project of new wave cinema and ushers it onto a broad historical plane.

Author : Richard A. Etlin
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262550156

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The Architecture of Death by Richard A. Etlin Pdf

In the eighteenth century Paris underwent a remarkable transformation in Western attitudes about life and death. The Architecture of Death traces this change through six pivotal decades, and analyzes the intellectual and social concerns that led to the establishment of a new kind of urban institution - the municipal cemetery. Drawing heavily on new materials and archival sources, supported by nearly 270 plans, photographs, and drawings, the book is not only a definitive work on the design of cemeteries but is also the cultural history of an age.

Author : Maurice B. Mittelmark,Georg F. Bauer,Lenneke Vaandrager,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Shifra Sagy,Monica Eriksson,Bengt Lindström,Claudia Meier Magistretti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030795153

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The Handbook of Salutogenesis by Maurice B. Mittelmark,Georg F. Bauer,Lenneke Vaandrager,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Shifra Sagy,Monica Eriksson,Bengt Lindström,Claudia Meier Magistretti Pdf

This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena. Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability, with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict, politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics, hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces, and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in salutogenesis methods and theory. With its comprehensive coverage, The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social sciences.

Author : Edwin Heathcote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015046491059

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Monument Builders by Edwin Heathcote Pdf

This is a study of buildings created to honour the dead. It explores the links between socio-religious and existential perceptions of death and how this has been interpreted in architecture over the 20th century.

Author : Madeline Gins,Shusaku Arakawa
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780817311698

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Architectural Body by Madeline Gins,Shusaku Arakawa Pdf

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions about the built environment. This book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition; it recommends that people seek architectural and aesthetic solutions to the dilemma of mortality. In 1997 the Guggenheim Museum presented an Arakawa/Gins retrospective and published a comprehensive volume of their work titled Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die. Architectural Body continues the philosophical definition of that project and demands a fundamental rethinking of the terms “human” and “being.” When organisms assume full responsibility for inventing themselves, where they live and how they live will merge. The artists believe that a thorough re-visioning of architecture will redefine life and its limitations and render death passe. The authors explain that “Another way to read reversible destiny . . . Is as an open challenge to our species to reinvent itself and to desist from foreclosing on any possibility.” Audacious and liberating, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th-century poetry, postmodern critical theory, conceptual art and architecture, contemporary avant-garde poetics, and to serious readers interested in architecture's influence on imaginative expression.

Author : Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262528641

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Attunement by Alberto Perez-Gomez Pdf

How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities. Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding. Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Pérez-Gómez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions. Pérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of Stimmung—attunement—and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture—the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how Stimmung might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement.

Author : Evelyn M. Kitagawa,Philip M. Hauser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674188446

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Differential Mortality in the United States by Evelyn M. Kitagawa,Philip M. Hauser Pdf

Author : Stephen Cairns,Jane Margaret Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262026937

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Buildings Must Die by Stephen Cairns,Jane Margaret Jacobs Pdf

Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose. Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the "death" of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture's sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture's preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently. Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building "deaths" include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Carlo Scarpa, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas and François Roche. Buildings Must Die is both a memento mori for architecture and a call to to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.