Dialectic VI
Craft - The Art of Making Architecture
- 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
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.
- 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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