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Dialectic VI

Craft - The Art of Making Architecture

By (author) Shundana Yusaf
By (author) Ole W. Fischer

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  • Craft seen through the lens of Hannah Arendt, Richard Sennett, and Kenneth Frampton
  • Craft as a path towards ecological systems thinking, and as a means for social activism
  • Craftiness and the question of 'good' versus 'adequate' building (example: the Greek multifamily residence - polykatoikia)
  • Reconnecting the audience to a collection of plaster casts with augmented reality
  • Craft practices in the arts as critique of globalised economy (with the examples Rotor and Wim Delvoye)
  • A comparison of 'caulked' buildings and the failure of craft in contemporary architecture
  • Experimental room for digital craft in the process of fabrication
  • The advantages of hybrid digital handcraft in textile installations
Full Description

The crafts, according to standard narration, have been in decline in Western societies since the weakening of guilds, the freedom of trade guaranteed by the French and American Revolution, and the rollout of industrialisation during the nineteenth century. Conversely, its endangered position in industrialised urban capitalism has transformed craft also into a site of resistance. With the digital update of the twenty first century, this issue of Dialectic asks for the critical potential of a discussion (reintroduction?) of the concept of craft into the maelstrom of contemporary spatial practice and current architectural thinking. Ten position pieces by international architects, activists, theoreticians, and makers approach the issue of ‘craft’ from dialectical perspectives. This is the debate about the current challenges and opportunities of the material, social, cultural, and aesthetic interrelationships of craft in architecture.

About the Author

Shundana Yusaf is an assistant professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Utah. Her research juxtaposes colonial/postcolonial history with media studies, framing each as a force of globalisation. She is the author of Broadcasting Buildings: Architecture on the Wireless 1927-1945 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014). Her second book-length digital humanities project for the Society of Architectural Historians, is entitled Archipedia Utah (Charlottesville: Virginia University Press, 2016-2017). Her current book, supported by Fulbright, The Resonant Tomb in the Muslim World, 1250 CE to Present, studies the auditory landscapes of the Sufi shrines in Central and South Asia.



Ole W Fischer is an architect, theoretician, historian, and curator working on 20th and 21st century modern and contemporary and serves as an associate professor at the University of Utah. He lectured and published internationally on the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, amongst others in Archithese, Werk, JSAH, MIT Thresholds, Archplus, AnArchitektur, GAM, Umeni, Beyond, West 86th, Framework, and log. He coedited Precisions - Architecture between Sciences and the Arts (Berlin 2008), the catalogue Sehnsucht - The Book of Architectural Longings (Vienna 2010). He is the author of Nietzsches Schatten (Berlin 2012).

Specifications
Publisher
ORO Editions
ISBN
9781940743417
Published
26th Oct 2018
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World excluding USA, Canada, Australasia & Asia (except Japan; China non-exclusive)
Size
280 mm x 216 mm
Pages
118 Pages
Illustrations
90 color
Name of series
Dialectic
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