Atatürk Kemal - Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death

ARCHITECTURE POST MORTEM

Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series

SERIES EDITOR: EAMONN CANNIFFE, MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK

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The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death

Edited by

Donald Kunze
Penn State University, USA

David Bertolin
Louisiana State University, USA

Simone Brott
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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Architecture post mortem : the diastolic architecture of decline, dystopia, and death / [edited] by Donald Kunze, David Bertolini and Simone Brott.

pages cm. -- (Ashgate studies in architecture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-6221-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-6222-4 (pbk) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-6223-1 (ebook)

1. Architecture--Philosophy. 2. Death. I. Kunze, Donald, 1947- editor of compilation. II. Bertolini, Charles, editor of compilation. III. Brott, Simone, editor of compilation.

NA2543.D43A73 2013
724.7--dc23

2013002706

for Marco Frascari
19452013
architect, educator, theorist

Donald Kunze

Todd McGowan

Simone Brott

Nadir Lahiji

David Bertolini

Kazi K. Ashraf

Donald Kunze

Gevork Hartoonian

Peggy Deamer

Paul Emmons

Erika Naginski

Didem Ekici

Dennis Maher

Kazi Ashraf teaches at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and writes on architecture and asceticism, phenomenology of architecture and landscape, Asian urbanism, and architecture in South Asia. He was guest editor of the Architectural Design special issue Made in India (November/December 2007), which received the Pierre Vago Journalism Award from the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA). His most recent books include The Hermits Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India (University of Hawaii Press, 2013) and Designing Dhaka: Manifesto for a Better City (Loka, 2012). Forthcoming books include creating an urban design framework for a hydrological city, and tracing the ascetic ideology of modern architecture.

David Bertolini is an associate professor at Louisiana State University School of Architecture. He has an interdisciplinary background of education and research with a Ph.D. from Temple University in English and a Masters Degree in architecture from Virginia Tech. His research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersection of theories concerning how ideology constructs subjectivity and is expressed in architecture, literature, and film. His recent publications include, The Architecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Nazi Fantasy in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History; Blooms Death in Ithaca or the END of Ulysses in The Journal of Modern Literature; The Postmortem Image: Peter Greenaways Documentary Death in the Seine: Writing the History of a Corpse in Studies in Documentary Film; and Architecture and the Cinematic Window: Hitchcocks Rear Window and the Fantasy Frame.

Simone Brott is Coordinator of History and Theory of Architecture at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She obtained a Masters from Yale School of Architecture, in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Urbanism, in 2003, whereupon she was premiated the Everett Victor Meeks Graduate Fellowship for academic excellence. Her Ph.D. in Architecture, examined by Anthony Vidler and John Rajchman, was awarded by The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2007. Her first book Architecture for a Free Subjectivity: Deleuze and Guattari at the Horizon of the Real, was published in 2011. Her recent essays are: Esprit Futur, Log 23 (Fall 2011); Collective Equipments of Power: The Road and the City, Thresholds 40 (Cambridge: MIT, 2012); Modernitys Opiate, or the Crisis of Iconic Architecture, Log 26 (Fall 2012); and Architecture et Rvolution: Le Corbusier and the Fascist Revolution, Thresholds 42 (Winter 2013). She is currently the recipient of a fellowship to undertake a study at the Fondation Le Corbusier archive in 2013 for her project on French modernity, fascism, and enlightenment.

Peggy Deamer is Assistant Dean and Professor of Architecture at Yale University. She is a principal in the firm of Deamer, Architects. She received a B.Arch. from The Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her dissertation on Adrian Stokes emphasized the relationship he explored between vision, the body, and craft. In 2003, she organized the Architecture and Psychoanalysis symposium at Yale School of Architecture. Articles by Ms. Deamer have appeared in Assemblage, Praxis, Perspecta, Architecture and Psychoanalysis: The Annuals of Psychoanalysis and Harvard Design Magazine, amongst others journals and anthologies. The work of her firm has appeared in Dwell, the New York Times; Architectural Record and House and Garden, amongst others. She is the editor of The Millennium House and co-editor of Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor, BIM in Academia, Re-Reading Perspecta, and the forthcoming Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present.