Post-traumatic urbanism: architectural design

The special issue will gather together a range of creative and provocative contributions to examine the urban impact of trauma. In a comparison between September 11 and Cyclone Katrina, Andrew Benjamin will examine how architectures symbolic function distorts the possibility of an urban response in lower Manhattan, and elides its possibility in New Orleans. Eyal Weizman considers how anengagement with the geography of conflict in the Middle East challenges and reinvigorates the discipline of architectures tools of spatial research. Ole Bouman describes how the VOLUME project has challenged architectural publishing through a focus on the conditions of conflict in cities. Michael Hensel considers what massive change through global warming means for current thinking about an architecture of sustainability. And interviews with figures from Naomi Klein and Paul Collier, to Rajendra Pachauri, along with recent projects by OMA and Foster and Partners, represent a groundbreaking engagement with the urban questions of massive upheaval and continuous conditions of instability. These contributions go beyond architectures agency as a reflex action in disaster response to probe the wider disciplinary and practical questions of design in the aftermath.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-74498-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 136
• Fecha Publicación: 24/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés