The Politics of Making / Edition 1

by Mark Swenarton, Igea Troiani, Helena Webster

Overview

A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective

Taking a broad view of the word ‘politics’, the essays address a range of questions, including:

• What is the relationship between politics and the making of space?
• What role has theory played in reinforcing or resisting political power?
• What are the political difficulties associated with working relationships?
• Do the products of our making construct our identity or liberate us?

A timely volume, focusing on an interdisciplinary debate on the politics of making, this is valuable reading for all students, professionals and academics interested or working in architectural theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415488006
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Series:	Critiques
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Swenarton is Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Igea Troiani is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Helena Webster is Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Politics of Cities 1. The Freedom of the City 2. The Politics of the West Bank Wall: Symbolic Violence and Spaciocide 3. Politics and Housing in 1950s French Algiers 4. A Space of the State: Beijing 1949-59 5. Representing the State: Symbolism and Ideology in Doxiadis's Plan of Islamabad 6. The Pleasures of Driving: Experiencing Cities from the Automobile 7. Campagna Romana: The Formation of the Oltrecittà Part 2: Politics of Makers 8. Architectural Theory in the Service of the Crown: The Foundation of the Académie Royale D’Architecture 9. The Flute and the House: Doing the Architecture of Making 10. Ethical Dilemmas and Difficult Collaborations: An Architect’s View Inside an Award-Winning but Troubling Project 11. Unsettling Design: Working Between Cultures in Remote Western Australia 12. The Beehive: A Difficult Collaboration 13. Edited by Alison Smithson: The Censored History of the ‘Team 10 Family' 14. Towards a New Understanding of Architecture of Addition: The Unrealised Extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art Part 3: Politics of Seeing 15. Watching Palaces: Ruskin and the Representation of Venice 16. Ambiguous Objects: Modernism, Brutalism and the Politics of the Picturesque 17. Souvenirs of the Architectural Tourist: Ahmedabad Framed 18. Auschwitz State Museum: Collective Memory and the Contested Landscape 19. Displacing Topographies: Making and Reading Istanbul Guidebooks 20. Down and Out in London: Photography and the Politics of Representing Life in the Elephant, 1948-2005 21. The Early American Maps of Iowa and their Politics 22. Making by Stealing: the Politics of Helen Chadwick’s ‘Creative and Manipulative Theft’ 23. The Art of the Plausible: Some Characteristics of Architectural Design