Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture</em> convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice.</p> <p>List of Figures </p><p>Contributors </p><p>Introduction</p><p>1 Contemporary Architecture, Crisis and Critique </p><p>Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White</p><p>Part I Designs </p><p>2 Public Face and Private Space in the Design of Contemporary Houses </p><p>Alice T. Friedman</p><p>3 Designs on Disaster: Architecture and Humanitarianism </p><p>Andrew Herscher</p><p>4 Architectures of Risk and Resiliency: "Embedded Security" in the Redesign of </p><p>Sandy Hook Elementary School </p><p>Rachel Hall</p><p>5 When the Megaproject Meets the Village: Formal and Informal Urbanization in </p><p>Southern China</p><p>Max Hirsh and Dorthy Tang</p><p>6 After the Countermonument: Commemoration in the Expanded Field </p><p>Mechtild Widrich</p><p>Part II Materiality </p><p>7<b> </b>Architecture of Memory, Past and Future </p><p>Abby Smith Rumsey</p><p>8 Life and Death in the Anthropocene: A Short History of Plastic </p><p>Heather Davis</p><p>9 The Space of Relations: Body, Emotion and Empathy in Architectural </p><p>Experience </p><p>Sarah Robinson</p><p>10 Edges: Body, Space, and Design </p><p>Jeremy White</p><p>11 Habit’s <i>Remainder </i></p><p>Aron Vinegar</p><p>12 Ephemeral Architecture: Toward Radical Contingency </p><p>Swati Chattopadhyay</p><p>Part III Alterity </p><p>13 Inhabiting Ruins: Architecture and the Limits of Occupation in Liberia </p><p>Danny Hoffman</p><p>14 Borderlands Architecture: Territories, Commons and Breathing Spaces </p><p>George F. Flaherty</p><p>15 Camps: Contemporary Environments of Autonomy, Necessity, and Control </p><p>Charlie Hailey</p><p>16 Defensive Alterity in Contemporary SriLankan Architecture </p><p>Anoma Pieris</p><p>17 Recasting the Ethnic Retail Street: Contemporary Immigrant Architecture in the </p><p>United States</p><p>Arijit Sen </p><p>Part IV Technologies</p><p>18 Obsolescence and its Futures </p><p>Daniel M. Abramson</p><p>19 Intelligent Architectural Settings </p><p>Christopher Beorkrem and Eric Sauda</p><p>20 Biohybrid Structures and Intelligent Materials </p><p>Ljilana Fruk and Veljko Armano Linta</p><p>21 Networked Urbanism: Definition, Scholarship, Directions </p><p>T.F. Tierney</p><p>22 The Architecture of Water </p><p>Karen Piper</p><p>Part V Cityscapes</p><p>23<b> </b>What Might Be: Re-describing Urbanscapes of the Global South </p><p>AbdouMaliq Simone</p><p>24 Watching the City: A Genealogy of Media Urbanism </p><p>Joshua Neves</p><p>25 View, Movement, Time and Contemporaneity: The Singapore Flyer </p><p>Iain Borden</p><p>26 Bi-Space: The Original Social Networking Site </p><p>Craig Wilkins</p><p>27 Urchins in the Infrastructure: Building with Hedgehogs in the Multispecies City </p><p>Laura McLauchlan</p><p>28 Unsettling Formal Power Systems </p><p>Saskia Sassen</p><p>Part VI Practice</p><p>29 Is it Really that Bad?: The Status of Women in Architecture and the Gender </p><p>Equity Movement </p><p>Despina Stratigakos</p><p>30 Where is the Social Project? Kenny Cupers</p><p>31 Collaboration: Unresolved Forms of Working Together in Contemporary </p><p>Architectural Practice </p><p>Sony Devabhaktuni and Min Kyung Lee</p><p>32 Starchitecture :: Starchitect </p><p>Jeremy White</p><p>33 A Eulogy for the Present: <i>The Death of Architecture, c 2000 </i></p><p>Rohan Shivkumar</p><p>34 Architects "Getting Real": On the Territorial Staging of a Professional Fiction </p><p>Arindam Dutta</p><p>Acknowledgements </p><p>Index</p>