Can Architecture Be an Emancipatory Project?
Dialogues on Architecture and the Left
Nadir Z. Lahiji
Can architectural discourse rethink itself in terms of a radical emancipatory project? And if so, what would be the contours of such a discourse?
Author Bio Nadir Lahiji is Adjunct Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is an architect, educator and a critical theorist. He teaches architecture theory, modernity, and contemporary criticism in the intersection of philosophy, radical social theory and psychoanalytical theory. He has taught in number of institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pratt Institute, Georgia Tech in the US, and the Lebanese American University, Beirut.
Previous Titles The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture (9781472512185), Bloomsbury, 2014.
Endorsements Can architecture be an instrument of emancipation? Can architects unchain themselves from their own instrumentalisation within capitalism? In a format as provocative as the questions Lahiji asks of his interlocutors - Andreotti, Cunningham, Deamer, Swyngedouw and Ockman - these are given a platform to ask searching questions of architecture, the Left, and each other. Their arguments and exchanges over issues of autonomy and activism, over the relationship between the political and the economic, over form and abstraction, are passionate, insightful and contentious. The critical engagement of its authors illuminates, for the theory and practice of architecture, what is at stake in the central question of Can Architecture be an Emancipatory Project? Douglas Spencer, Professor of Architecture, Architectural Association, London.
USP Radical approach to the existing discourse of architecture within the discourse of the contemporary. High-profile contributors.
Competing Books The Political Unconscious of Architecture (9781409451815), by Nadir Lahiji Ashgate, 2011
Categories PHILOSOPHY(PHI019000) -> Political(PHI019000) ARCHITECTURE(ARC000000) -> General(ARC000000) POLITICAL SCIENCE(POL000000) -> General(POL000000)
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Publication Date
March 2016
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78279-737-1 $25.95 | £14.99 8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm 216PP
eBook ISBN: 978-1-78279-736-4 $12.99 | £7.99
Library of Congress 2015943108
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