Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (Writing Architecture)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262571498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Grosz argues that time, change, and emergence, traditionally viewed as outside the concerns of space, must become more integral to the processes of design and construction. She also argues against architecture's historical indifference to sexual specificity, asking what the existence of (at least) two sexes has to do with how we understand and experience space. "Outside" also refers to those whose voices are not usually heard in architectural discourse but who inhabit its space--the destitute, the homeless, the sick, and the dying, as well as women and minorities.Grosz asks how we can understand space differently in order to structure and inhabit our living arrangements accordingly. To be outside allows one a f
Elizabeth Grosz is the Julian Park Chair in Humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
To Be Read Time Before Time The most enlightening chapter is "The Future of Space: Toward an Architecture of Invention". For that essay alone, buy or read this book. Ms Grosz problematizes philosophies with virtualities, logics, or spaces they have long overlooked. Moving away from a tired tradition of coherentism and rigor (phallocentric logocentrism), Aristotelian logic and argumentation, Ms. Grosz takes us on a journey through space and time, before or after space and time, and in between time and space or space and time (the interval). It constitutes a journey, as such, that won't soon be forgotten. Ms. Grosz offers insights such as the following:". Let Down A Customer Initially I was impressed with this book, it seemed to be well written and to raise some interesting questions concerning architectural ideas of the present and future. As the book progresses the author's rhetoric gets a bit thin, causually citing references that are never elaborated upon leaving many of her arguements baseless. If you suffer from the ability to develop your own questions concerning the future of architectural thought/theory, whether you are an architect or from the 'outside', buy this book. Otherwise find an author that can actual communicate an idea beyond an initial thought.. Amazing and Cutting Edge Professor Grosz as done it again. In her latest work she as out done herself. Enjoy the read
For Grosz, the virtual opens a future in which 'the logic of invention' can operate. (Michael Hardt, Literature Program, Duke University)Architecture's best-kept secret is that it is not only knowledge of form, but also a form of knowledge. Elizabeth Grosz's Architecture from the Outside explores that secret, revealing key contemporary concepts and ideas and opening new routes for spatial research and invention. In this illuminating series of essays, Elizabeth Grosz brings to architecture a Deleuzian philosophical perspective that complements her longstanding engagements with both the concept of space and the experience of bodies. With characteristic insight and rigor, Elizabeth Grosz provides a helpful analysis of the relation between philosophy and architecture during the past decade. More important, by rethinking virtuality in relation to the body and material