Exteriorless Architecture

Form, Space, and Urbanities of Neoliberalism

Stefano Corbo

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English

Routledge
31 May 2023

Theory of architecture; Professional interior design; City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; Regional & area planning

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others. Generally considered as mediocre and banal examples that sit outside of pre-established disciplinary canons, these architectural episodes are extremely relevant. They are relevant not for their aesthetic or historic qualities but for what they represent – for the system of values these spaces embed. They express specific power relations, exacerbate issues of labor, and generate dramatic processes of subjectivity. Most importantly, these architectures, despite their formal and typological heterogeneity, belong to a common paradigm: the EXTERIORLESS.

How can an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS be defined? How does it differentiate from examples and manifestations of the past? How do notions of legibility, form versus function, typological articulation come into play?

In situating the spatialities of contemporary capitalism within the larger debate on Anthropocene, Post-Anthropocene, and Capitalocene, the book attempts to answer those questions by delineating three main characteristics for an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS: its physical and symbolic role as interface; its ambiguous condition of being at the same time local and global, isolated and connected, compressed and expanded; and, lastly, its contribution to new forms of urbanity in absence of the traditional city. These three defining aspects constitute the main sections of the book. Each section includes two chapters covering a wide spectrum of themes and examples. In its tripartite organization, the book describes the influence that the experimental architecture of the 1960s has exerted on late-capitalist spatial byproducts; it analyzes the impact of logistics on the redesign of the territory; and it introduces the radical processes of urban transformation generated by the EXTERIORLESS.

By: Stefano Corbo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 412g
ISBN: 9781032170817
ISBN 10: 1032170816
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Preface. 1) Capitalism, Architecture, Subjectivity. 2) Interface. 3) Expanded Domains. 4) Forms of Urbanity. 5) Afterword. Index.

Stefano Corbo is an Italian architect and educator. He holds a Ph.D in Advanced Architectural Design from UPM-ETSAM Madrid. Over the last years, he taught at several academic institutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and China. In 2022, Corbo joined the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft.