Agency in architecture: Rethinking criticality in theory and practice

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Volumn , Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Doucet, Isabelle ^a   Cupers, Kenny ^a  

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EID: 79957847658     PISSN: 18751504     EISSN: 18751490     Source Type: Journal    
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References (19)

1. See: Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting, 'Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism,' in Perspecta, 33 (theme: Mining Autonomy), ed. by Michael Osman, et al. (New Haven: Journal of the Yale School of Architecture, 2002), pp. 72-77.
2. Michael Speaks, 'After Theory,' Architectural Record (June 2005), pp. 72-75.
3. George Baird, '"Criticality" and Its Discontents,' Harvard Design Magazine, 21 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005), pp. 16-21.
4. Reinhold Martin, 'Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism,' Harvard Design Magazine, 22 (Spring/Summer 2005), pp. 1-5. This debate found reception in Europe with the 2006 conference 'The Projective Landscape' organised by Stylos at TU Delft.
5. See: Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser, and Mark Dorrian (eds.), Critical Architecture (London: Routledge, 2007).
6. Véronique Patteeuw, Joachim Declerk and Filip Geers (eds.), Oase, 75 (theme: 25 Years of Critical Reflection on Architecture, 2008); http://www.criticat.fr [accessed on 15 March 2009]; http://www.field-journal.org [accessed on 15 March 2009].
7. For instance: the AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) initiative established in 2003 and its first conference entitled 'Critical Architecture' (2004), and its most recent one entitled 'Agency' (2008); the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam on Power.
8. Conference 'Architecture of the New World Order' (Bauhaus, Weimar 2009). Recent initiatives to revive the architectural project of autonomy resonate with: Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Project of Autonomy (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).
9. See: Critical Inquiry, 30, 2 (2003).
10. Emily Eakin, 'The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter,' New York Times (19 April 2003).
11. For instance: Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).
12. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
13. Edward Soja, Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real and Imagined Spaces (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996).
14. David Harvey, Spaces of Hope (Los Angeles, Cal.: California University Press, 2000).
15. Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2002).
16. Frank Moelaert, Arantxa Rodriguez, and Erik Swyngedouw (eds.), The globalized City: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in European Cities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
17. Bruno Latour and Albena Yaneva, 'Give me a Gun and I will Make All Buildings Move: An ANT's View of Architecture,' in Explorations in Architecture: Teaching, Design, Research, ed. by Reto Geiser (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008), pp. 80-89.
18. Imbroglio was used as the name for the website (www.imbroglio.be) related to the 'The loyalties of knowledge' research project, funded by the Belgian Science Policy, and involving amongst others Serge Gutwirth, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour. It is dedicated to the study of imbroglios of knowledge, institutions, actants and things.
19. Suggested by Scott Lash in this issue, see the article 'Agency and Architecture: How to Be Critical?'