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Taylor and Francis Elements Of Architecture Assembling Archaeology Atmosphere And The Performance Of Building Spaces 2016 Edition by Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sorensen
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things, to understand humans they must also address the performances, as well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains. The contributions in this volume investigate the way time, performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a book about the constellations of people, places and things that emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal engagements. This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category of material objects that have defined much research into what it means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the lives and interactions of past societies. Into the Fog of Architecture Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SorensenOn Behalf of Form: The view from archaeology and architecture Graham HarmanPart I: Form and TemporalityOn Shaping Buildings Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SorensenImmanent Architecture Lesley K. McFadyenBig Affects: Size, Sex and Stalinist 'Architectural Power' in Post-Socialist Warsaw Michal MurawskiArchitecture in Ruins: Palladio, Piranesi and Kahn Jonathan HillBuilding Lives Gavin Lucas Archaeologies of an Informal City: Temporal dimensions of contemporary Andean urbanism Alison Kohn & Shannon Lee DawdyBrussels' Conflicting Constructs Mark Minkjan & Ingel VaiklaPart II: AtmospheresA Sense of Place Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SorensenLighting up the Atmosphere Tim IngoldTraffic Architecture - Hidden affectionsJurgen HasseAffective Architecture in Ardnamurchan: Assemblages at three scales Oliver J. T. HarrisA Sense of Architecture in the Past: Exploring the sensory experience of architecture in archaeology Serena LovePart III: Performance and processArchitecture in MotionMikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SorensenPolitics of Architectural Imaging: Four ways of assembling a city Albena YanevaHomeless, Home-Making, and Archaeology: 'To be at home wherever I find myself' Larry J. ZimmermanInto Architecture: House-building and acentered personhood in Maputo, Mozambique Morten NielsenSedimentation and Sentiment: Destabilizing architecture at the post-industrial Mexican periphery Jason RamseyPerformance Architecture: Absence, place and action Nick KayeReframing the Ziggurat: Looking at (and from) ancient Mesopotamian temple towers Augusta McMahonPart IV: Disintegration and unfinishednessArchitecture Becoming New Spaces Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SorensenIncipient Ruination: Materiality, destructive agencies and repair Tim EdensorFor Love of Ruins THora PetursdottirUnfinishing Buildings Michael A. UlfstjerneThe Disconnected Experience of Some Designed Places Jorgen Ole BaerenholdtFailure? An archaeology of the architecture of nuclear waste containmentRosemary JoyceIndex