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Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces

Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

General Architecture

ISBN10: 1032407549
ISBN13: 9781032407548
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2024
Pages: 388
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse?

Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such refrains to a concept of architecture wedged in the middle ground--jammed amidst life, things and events. Rather than being aloof from its surrounds, architecture-in-the-midst challenges an autonomous epistemology. Beyond accounting for the vivid but excluded, this book develops a frame and a disposition for thinking critically about, speculatively through, and being grounded by, encounter. Examining affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore, it details architecture's uneasy but inextricable relationship with key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the scenic and the decorative. The outcome is a politicized architectural discourse simultaneously grounded and speculative; bridging depth and intuition, thinking and feeling.

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