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Perspecta 45

Cover of Perspecta 45: Agency

ISBN
9780262517881
Published
2012 MIT Press. Paperback | $29.95 Trade | £24.95 | 208 pp. | 9 x 12 in | 20 color illus., 71 b&w illus.
Editor
Kurt Evans
Iben Falconer
Ian Mills
Designer
Zak Jensen
Mỹ Linh Triệu Nguyễn

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Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with its social, political, and economic contexts; major events in world history have had correspondingly dramatic effects on the discipline. The Great Depression, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Katrina, for example, were all catalysts for architectural response and resulted in a diversification of the architect’s portfolio. Yet far too often, architects simply react to changes in the world, rather than serving as agents of change themselves.

This issue of Perspecta—the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America—takes a broader view, using the concept of agency to explore the future of architecture. The retreat from liability, the barricade of theory, and the silos of specialization have generated a field that is risk-averse and reactive, rather than bold and active. Instead of assuming that architects can only throw up their hands in despair, the editors of this issue of Perspecta invite them to roll up their sleeves and get to work.

In Perspecta 45, prominent architects, scholars, and artists investigate how architects can become agents for change within their own discipline and in the world at large.

Contents

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen—Architect as organizer or the way the world works

Nader Tehrani—The agency interview: three schools of architecture

Ines Weizman—Dissedence through architecture

Jaime Lerner—Cities, agency and change

Urban-Think Tank—A conversation south of the border

Stefano Boeri—Architecture is/as politics

Peter Eisenman—The agency interview: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS)

Michael Osman—The managerial aesthetics of concrete

Darryl Collins—Vann Molyvann: situating the work of Cambodia’s most influential architect

Vann Molyvann—The agency interview: the litany of power, the legacy of modernism

Enrique Ramirez—An aerial pax americana

Rania Ghosn—Where are the missing spaces? The geography of some uncommon territories

Victor van der Chijs—The agency interview: expanding the field

Bjarke Ingels—Public participation extreme

Jan Kempenaers—Spomenik

Andrew Shanken—The tree in the system: shifting urban paradigms in mid-century London

Keller Easterling—Take-away

Timur Galen—The agency interview: the demands of a design-minded client

Perspecta 45 & Pierluigi Serraino—Creative architects: an introduction to the archives at the Institute of Personality and Social Research

Thomas Auer, Joshua Vanwyck & Erik Olsen—Sustainability beyond LEED: integrating performative daylight in the built environment

Preston Scott Cohen—The agency interview: architecture as the instrument

Ariane Lourie Harrison—Le Corbusier: architect, agent de propagande