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Is there an Object Oriented Architecture?
Engaging Graham Harman
Is there an Object Oriented Architecture?
Engaging Graham Harman
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Bringing Graham Harman's philosophy into direct confrontation with contemporary architectural theory in new and creative ways, Is There an Object-Oriented Architecture? provides a dialogue between Harman and six of the world's leading architectural thinkers, Adam Sharr, Lorens Holm, Jonathan Hale, Peg Rawes, Patrick Lynch and Peter Carl.
Harman's object-oriented philosophy is one that sees the universe as a carnival of equal “objects” with no hierarchy between humans and nonhumans. In his model, unicorns, triangles, bicycles, neutrons, and humans are all things with enduring essences that outlast their partial transformations. It is a strikingly democratic vision of the universe that knocks humans off their ontological pedestal as arbiters of what is real. It also radically challenges the very precepts of architectural theory, the structure of which remains stubbornly human-centric as it seeks to give form to the human being's place at the centre of the cosmos.
In this new book, each thinker develops the implications of Harman's philosophy for the future of architecture by entering into a direct exchange with the philosopher and his thinking, both questioning him and questioning with him.
Table of Contents
acknowledgements
Introduction: Joseph Bedford (Virginia Tech), Object-Oriented Architecture
Chapter 1: Graham Harman (SCi-art, USA and the European Graduate School, Switzerland), What is Object-Oriented Architecture?
Chapter 2: Adam Sharr (Newcastle University, UK): The Circus, the Canon and a House with One Wall
Chapter 3: Lorens Holm (Dundee University, UK), Architecture and its Objects
Chapter 4: Peter Carl (London Metropolitan University, UK), Practical Wisdom, Morals and Ethics
Chapter 5: Patrick Lynch (Lynch Architects), The Resistance of Things
Chapter 6: Peg Rawes (University College London, UK), Nonhuman Architectural Ecologies
Chapter 7: Jonathan Hale (Nottingham University, UK), Coping Without Noticing
bibliography
index
Product details
| Published | 20 Feb 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 200 |
| ISBN | 9781350133457 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Architecture Exchange: Engagements with Contemporary Theory and Philosophy |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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