Doina Petrescu - The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice

The Social (Re)Production of Architecture

The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the right to the city into todays context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s discussions about the production of space, which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architectures engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of social can architecture (re)produce, and what kinds of politics, values and actions are needed.

The book features 24 interdisciplinary essays written by leading theorists and practitioners including social thinkers, economic theorists, architects, educators, urban curators, feminists, artists and activists from different generations and global contexts. The essays discuss the diverse, global locations with work taking different and specific forms in these different contexts.

A cutting-edge, critical text which rethinks both practice and theory in the light of recent crises, making it key reading for students, academics and practitioners.

Doina Petrescu is Professor of Architecture and Design Activism at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Kim Trogal is lecturer at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, UK.

THE SOCIAL (Re)PRODUCTION OF ARCHITECTURE

POLITICS, VALUES AND ACTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE

Edited by
Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal

First published 2017

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Names: Petrescu, Doina, editor. | Trogal, Kim, editor.

Title: The social (re)production of architecture : politics, values and actions in contemporary practice / [edited by] Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016004290 | ISBN 9781138859487 (hb : alk. paper) ISBN 9781138859494 (pb : alk. paper) ISBN 9781315717180 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Architecture and society. | ArchitecturePolitical aspects. | Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991.

Classification: LCC NA2543.S6 S615 2016 | DDC 720.1/03dc23

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ISBN: 978-1-138-85948-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-85949-4 (pbk)

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CONTENTS

Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal

Tatjana Schneider

Supreeya Wungpatcharapon

Gabu Heindl

Peter Mutschler and Ruth Morrow

Pelin Tan

Elke Krasny

Neil Brenner

Phil Langley

Katherine Gibson, with Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal

Kim Trogal

Kathrin Bhm

Sandra Bartoli and Mathias Heyden

Gabriela Rendn and Miguel Robles-Durn

Ana Doki, Marc Neelen and Ana Vilenica

Rainer Hehl

Peter Mrtenbck and Helge Mooshammer

Ana Betancour

Alex Axinte and Cristi Borcan (studioBASAR)

Rory Hyde

Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif

Meike Schalk

Apolonija uteri

Jeanne van Heeswijk

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Sandra Bartoli is Visiting Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Knste in Nrnberg, Germany. She was research associate (20092015) at the Technische Universitt Berlin. Her office, Bros fr Konstruktivismus, founded with Silvan Linden, is a practice of architecture and research. She is the author of the book Tiergarten (60 pages, 2014) and is co-publisher and editor of Architektur in Gebrauch (Architecture in Use), an architectural magazine which explores the value of use in the production conditions of architecture. She coauthored the book La Zona Index (ngbk, 2012). She conceived and co-organized the international symposium Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression (TU Berlin) at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2015; the book, co-edited with Jrg Stollmann, is forthcoming.

Ana Betancour is an architect and Rector of the UMA School of Architecture, Ume, Sweden, where she is also a Professor in Architecture and Urban Design. She was previously Professor in Urban Design at Chalmers University of Technology and Director of the Masters programme Architecture and Urban Design. She founded A + URL/Architecture + Urban Research Laboratory, and ran the architectural practice Urban + Architecture Agency, whose work includes numerous projects that range from architectural and urban design, academic research, multidisciplinary cultural and new media projects. Her work investigates alternative strategies and ways to operate and catalyse change within the global transformations affecting cities today. She is widely published, exhibited, and is a member of various international reference groups, networks and organizations, nationally and internationally.

Kathrin Bhm is an artist and founding member of the London-based art and architecture collective public works, and the pan-European artist initiative Myvillages, whose work is collaborative and focused towards an expansive and productive public realm. Current projects include Company: Movement, Deals and Drinks in east London (2014, ongoing), the International Village Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig (20152016) and the ongoing Haystacks series.

Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA. His most recent books are Critique of Urbanization (Birkhuser, 2016) and Implosions/Explosions:Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2013). He directs the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard GSD (urbantheorylab.net), a research team that uses the tools of critical urban theory, historical geopolitical economy and radical cartography to decipher emergent patterns of urbanization. He is currently completing several books, including