Writing Architectures -

Writing Architectures

Ficto-Critical Approaches

Hélène Frichot, Naomi Stead (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-13790-5 (ISBN)
124,70 inkl. MwSt
Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place.

This collection of essays explores what happens when fiction, experimental writing and criticism are combined and applied to architectural projects and problems. It begins with ficto-criticism – an experimental and often feminist mode of writing which fuses the forms and genres of essay, critique, and story – and extends it into the domain of architecture, challenging assumptions about our contemporary social and political realities, and placing architecture in contact with such disciplines as cultural studies, literary theory and ethnography. These sixteen newly-written pieces have been selected for this volume to show how ficto-critical writing can be a powerful vehicle for creative architectural practice, providing new opportunities to explore modes of writing about architecture both within and beyond the discipline.

The collection represents a broad range of geographical and cultural positions including indigenous and non-Western contexts, and includes a foreword and afterword by important thinkers in the domains of architectural criticism (Jane Rendell) and cultural studies/ethnography (Stephen Muecke).

Hélène Frichot is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Naomi Stead is Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at Monash University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations

Prelude
1. Prelude – the ways in which we write, Jane Rendell (UCL, UK)

Writing Architectures
2. Waking Ideas From Their Sleep: An introduction to ficto-critical writing in and of architecture, Hélène Frichot (KTH, Sweden) and Naomi Stead (Monash University, Australia)
3. From Site to Situation: Cutting up as fictocritical composition, Anna Gibbs (Western Sydney University, Australia)
4. Construction (and connection), Katrina Schlunke (University of Tasmania and Sydney, Australia)
5. Incompossible Constructions of an Island Paradise, Hélène Frichot (KTH, Sweden)
6. Archaeologies of Exile on Trikeri Island: Listening to stones and speculating on prison matters, Elke Krasny and Phoebe Giannisi
7. In which Robert Smithson visits Christchurch: Ficto-criticism and the field trip, Jacky Bowring (Lincoln University, New Zealand)
8. Hiroshima: Notes of the expanded field, Kim Roberts (Independent Scholar, Australia)
9. Writing Walking: Ficto-critical routes through eighteenth-century London, Emma Cheatle (University of Sheffield, UK)
10. The Indelible Traces of Your Footsteps, Mireille Roddier (University of Michigan, USA)
11. Sydney Letters: A to E, Naomi Stead (Monash University, Australia) and Katrina Schlunke (University of Tasmania and Sydney, Australia)
12. Outrage on Calle Alcalá, Scott Colman (Rice University, USA) and Lars Lerup (Rice Univeristy and University of California at Berkeley, USA)
13. Architecture as Entourage: The politics of objects, Michael Young (The Cooper Union, USA)
14. The Architect Who Couldn’t Write, Keith Mitnick (University of Michigan, USA)
15. Return to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after The Marriage Plot, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (University of Queensland, Australia)
16. The Bannister, Katrina Simon (RMIT University, Australia)
17. Nice House, Woodland Lakes, Andrew Steen (University of Tasmania, Australia)
18. The Door Left Ajar: On Dissident Waiting and Collective Fiction, Sepideh Karami (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Postlude
19. Postlude – Ficto-criticism after critique, Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia)

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 35 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 714 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-350-13790-1 / 1350137901
ISBN-13 978-1-350-13790-5 / 9781350137905
Zustand Neuware
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