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The Real Perspecta 42 / YALE ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL

The Real Perspecta 42 / YALE ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL

It is often suggested that architecture is more ''real'' than the other arts, more grounded and definitive. Yet even the most fundamental and concrete elements of architecture are often designed to conceal. This issue of Perspecta-the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America-embraces the paradoxical nature of the real, presenting it as a lens that magnifies the strategies and tactics of architecture, past, present, and future. How does architecture create real effects, change our built environment, and respond to crises? What are the tricks and trompe l'oeils of contemporary practice? Amid fake Europes, shape-shifting materials, and underwater asylums, Perspecta 42 navigates architecture's disciplinary boundaries to locate the real in the most unlikely of places.

The real has been central to our understanding of architecture for the last hundred years, even if the discussion has been couched in other terms. While architecture anxiously situates itself between building and discourse, it never fully capitulates to either side. Through historical inquiry, theoretical writing, and contemporary projects, Perspecta 42 asserts that now, more than ever, architecture is in search of the real.
The issue revolves around three encounters with the real. First, the physical: texts, projects, and conversations that relate to issues of material properties and our bodily surroundings-thoughts on such topics as sensory environments, smart materials, and the floor as a landscape of logistics. Second, authenticity: explorations of representation and hybrid realities, including the digital and the surreal. And, finally, institutional failures and man-made or natural crises: considerations of war, the current economic calamity, and racial politics.


ISBN/EAN
9780262513937
Format
230 x 305
Année
2010
Pages
176
Editeur
THE MIT PRESS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Auteur(s)
MATTHEW ROMAN, TAL SCHORI
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