ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Design
chapter 4|10 pages
Architectures of Risk and Resiliency
chapter 5|11 pages
When the Megaproject Meets the Village
part II|2 pages
Materiality
part III|2 pages
Alterity
chapter 13|12 pages
Inhabiting Ruins
chapter 17|14 pages
Recasting the Ethnic Retail Street
part IV|2 pages
Technologies
part V|2 pages
Cityscapes
part VI|2 pages
Practice