Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
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- Paperback
172 pages
- Release Date
7 January 1997
Summary
“Differences” brings together ten essays written since the mid-1980s by the Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction especially for this English edition. Contemplating the panorama of contemporary art and architecture, de Sola-Morales posits that there is no one way to describe today’s practice; instead he concentrates in elucidating the present dynamic of contrast, diversity and tension. In an unorthodox pairing, de Sola-Morales derives his inspriation from both phenomenology and Deleuzean poststructuralism. Combining these philosophical inheritances allows him to reinvoke the human subject without referring to classical humanism or announcing the death of the object. His retrospective review of the disciplines of art and architecture, particularly as they have developed since World War II, provokes him to design, draft and ultimately build a description of modernism’s lineage of subjectivity. The result is a construction of fluid “topographies” that articulate, rather than depict, the shaky ground on which our current artistic and architectural production rests.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262540858 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262540851 |
| Author: | Ignasi De Sola Morales, Ignasi De Sola-Morales |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 172 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 1997 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 136mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Writing Architecture |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“Following traces that are neither modern nor postmodern, Ignasi deSola-Morales opens a deterritorialized territory harboring richpossibilities for architectural theory and practice. Philosophicallyastute and critically savvy, Differences resists the fashionableallure of nihilism by discerning creative resources circulating in thechaotic currents of contemporary culture.” Mark C. Taylor, Preston S. Parish Professor of Humanities, Williams College “Ignasi de Sola-Morales’ term starting points perfectlycaptures the light and acute temperament of these essays. With the nimbleease of Deleuzean vectors, these writings start from contemporary practiceand move into fresh horizons of architectural thinking. At a time when mostarchitectural writing seems to fall within either the limits of journalismor the rigorous territories of academic research, this collection of textsdraws an unfrequented path of discourse, a topography that becomes aninvitation to approach architectural ideas through pleasures of reading.” Xavier Costa, Head, Department of Architecture,Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Ignasi De Sola Morales
Kenneth Thompson is a Senior Lecturers in Sociology at Britain’s Open University.
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