Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

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Prof Albena Yaneva (Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy)

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political

An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

Prof Albena Yaneva (Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy)

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English

Bloomsbury Visual Arts
01 June 2019

Theory of architecture

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative pragmatist agenda that will inspire new thinking about the politics of design and architectural practice.

Moving beyond conventional conversations about design and politics, the book shows how recent developments in political philosophy can transform our understanding of the role of the architect. It asks: how, when, and under what circumstances can design practice generate political relations? How can architectural design become more ‘political’?

Five central chapters, which can be read alone or in sequence, explore the answers to these questions. Powerfully pragmatic in approach, each presents one of the ‘five ways to make architecture political’, and each is illustrated by case studies from a range of contemporary situations around the world.

We see how politics happens in architectural practice, learn how different design technologies have political effects, and follow how architects reach different publics, trigger reactions and affect different communities worldwide.

Combining an accessible introduction to contemporary political concepts with a practical approach for a more political kind of practice, this book will stimulate debate among students and theorists alike, and inspire action in established and start-up practices.

By: Prof Albena Yaneva (Polytechnic University of Turin Italy)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781350089716
ISBN 10: 1350089710
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 June 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Architecture and Politics 2. How to Study Ecology of Practice? 3. Political Objects (The first way of becoming political) 4. Experiments in Practice (The second way of becoming political) 5. The Multiple Natures of a City (The third way of becoming political) 6. Sites of Politics (The fourth way of becoming political) 7. Urban Publics (The fifth way of becoming political) Conclusion Bibliography

Albena Yaneva is Professor in Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, UK and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, USA. She is the author of Mapping Controversies in Architecture (2012), The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture (2009), and Made by the Office for Metropolitan Design: An Ethnography of Design (2009).

Reviews for Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political is a careful, engaging, and timely work. The title belies its most superb contribution, which is the development (and deployment) of a methodology, a practice, by which architecture might be engaged. * Architectural Theory Review * How is architecture political? What is the agency of buildings? Because of contemporary social, political and environmental challenges, these questions have become crucial. Using Actor-Network Theory in an innovative way, Albena Yaneva disrupts received answers by giving priority to what buildings really do, instead of focusing on what they are supposed to mean to their designers, owners or users. * Antoine Picon, Director of Research at Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA * Albena Yaneva’s wonderful book asks us, above all, to take the study of architecture’s politics slowly. Rather than jump to easy and ready-made political conclusions, she shows us both how it is possible and why it is necessary to take time to describe the politics of architecture in process, weaving theory and fieldwork together into a compelling synthesis. Five Ways to Make Architecture Political is a vital intervention, for students, practitioners and theorists alike. * Andrew Barry, Head of the Department of Geography at University College London, UK *