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Architecture Criticism

Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics

by (author) Kai Mah & Patrick Lynn Rivers

Publisher
Dalhousie Architectural Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
Criticism, General, Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780929112770
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $39.95

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This book brings together five transformative architectural practices from around the globe to critique the assumptions, working methods, and embedded social and political biases within "normal" architectural practice. Their changing ethics of practice, and the ways in which they problematize their contexts – neoliberal political and architectural economies, in deeply and increasingly unequal societies – inform an emerging critical discourse that is reshaping the field and its relationship to larger global forces. Architects must both sustain themselves and respond to the compelling concerns of our time; this book creates a forum for navigating such choices.

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Contributor Notes

Kai Wood Mah and Patrick Lynn Rivers co-direct Afield, a design research practice bringing comparative interdisciplinary perspectives to contemporary social issues. Mah is a design historian, licensed architect in Québec, and Associate Professor of Architecture at Laurentian University; his architectural practice is interdisciplinary and grounded in site-specific investigations employing archives, fieldwork, social science methodologies, and research-creation. Rivers is a political scientist, currently Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rivers' scholarship is presented in the book Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa, as well as in peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, and magazines.