Time and Transformation in Architecture

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36640-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 100, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Time and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, approaches architecture and the built environment from an interdisciplinary point of view by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices. The volume consists of seven chapters that explore the following questions: How do architectural ideas, ideals, and meanings emerge, develop, and transform? How is architecture manifested in relation to time, time-space, and the social dimensions it entails and produces? The volume provides both multifaceted theoretical discussions on time and temporality in architecture and empirical case studies around the globe in which these theories and conceptualizations are tested and explored.

Contributors are Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa, André van Graan, June Jordaan, Joongsub Kim, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana, Sanja Rodeš and Smaranda Spânu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lähdesmäki, Tuuli

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Time and Spatial and Social Turns in Architectural Research
Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Part 1: Temporality and Changing Meanings of Urban Space

2 Temporary Architecture as a Means in Urban Regeneration
Tuuli Lähdesmäki

3 After the Event: Considering Media Images and Skyscraper Architecture at the Turn of the 21st Century
Sanja Rodeš

Part 2: Architectural Imaginings and Colonial and Post-Colonial Realities

4 Modernism as a Mechanism of Power and Control in Colonial Contexts: The Project of Modernity in Cape Town, South Africa
André van Graan

5 Architectural Agency and ‘Place-Making’ in a Transformative Post-Apartheid South African Landscape
June Jordaan

6 Women as Retrofits in Modernist Low-Income Housing
Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana and Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa

Part 3: Spirituality and Decay in Architecture

7 The Heterotopic Nature of the Built Heritage. The Sacred Wooden Architecture of Transylvania and Its Practices
Smaranda Spânu

8 Understanding Spirituality in Disabled Places: Focusing on Urban Ruins and Decay
Joongsub Kim

Über Autor(innen)

Tuuli Lähdesmäki, PhD (2007), University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and DSocSc (2014), University of Eastern Finland, is an Adjunct Professor of Art History at the University of Jyväskylä. She has lead research projects and published studies on cultural and urban policies.