Name: Architecture and Micropolitics: Four Buildings 2011-2022. Farshid Moussavi Architecture
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Author: Jacques Rancière
ISBN: 9783038601944

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Architecture and Micropolitics: Four Buildings 2011-2022. Farshid Moussavi Architecture

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Physical Book

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Epilogue by

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Language

English

Pages

588

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

32.8 x 23.4 x 4.1 cm

Weight

2.47 kg.

ISBN13

9783038601944

Synopsis "Architecture and Micropolitics: Four Buildings 2011-2022. Farshid Moussavi Architecture"

The interaction of architecture and society, demonstrated through important buildings by Farshid Moussavi Architecture. This timely book seeks to dispel two widely held misconceptions: first, that architects are no longer central to the making of buildings and, second, that design is a linear process which begins with a fully formed architectural vision. Architect Farshid Moussavi argues that the temporality of architecture provides day-to-day practice with the potential to generate change. She proposes that we abandon determinism and embrace chance events and the subjective factors that influence practice in order to ground buildings in the micropolitics of everyday life. Using four buildings designed by FMA, Moussavi's London-based practice, Architecture & Micropolitics shows how the rhizomatic nature of their design process is combined with diligent research and an openness to elements of chance to fuel creativity and bend rules that would generate a merely functional building. A substantial essay by Farshid Moussavi and an afterword by the philosopher Jacques Rancière are followed by detailed analyses of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland; Lot 19, the first new residential block to be built in the La Défense district of Paris in thirty years; the Folie Divine apartment building in Montpellier; and the Ismaili Center Houston, the first new building in the US which is dedicated to use by the Ismaili community. The book also features contributions by Iñaki Ábalos, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Irénée Scalbert. Architecture & Micropolitics is recommended for any professional and academic library. It is a surprising book which will be of value to anyone who is interested in the relationship between architecture and society.

Jacques Rancière

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Jacques Rancière (born in 1940) is a French philosopher known for his studies in aesthetics, politics, and education. He became known as the co-author of Reading Capital (1974), where he criticized the positions of his former teacher, Louis Althusser. Throughout his career, he has developed a philosophy focused on equality and intellectual emancipation.

Among his most influential works are The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1987), where he explores emancipatory pedagogy; Disagreement (1995), an analysis of politics and language; and The Emancipated Spectator (2008), which questions passivity in art and politics. His work falls within the philosophical genre and has influenced various fields such as political theory, pedagogy, and aesthetics.

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