Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935408739 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Here is a sidelined architecture history that returns as a missing link -- eccentric stories in the emerging development of those networks, technologies, media, and advocacies of global governance that are of most consequence today. Essential reading for anyone with activist stakes in the contemporary history of insurgent habitats and militarized space. Outlaw Territories mines architectural history to generate a new sensibility and inaugurate a necessary field of practice that might be called 'the architecture of the earth.' Felicity Scott redefines architecture's task as the entanglement o
Felicity D. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism (MIT Press). Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial
Once architecture became aligned with a global matrix of forces concerned with the environment, economic development, migration, genocide, and war, its role shifted at times toward providing strategic expertise for institutions born of neoliberal capitalism. She describes architecture's response to the displacement of persons brought on by migration, urbanization, environmental catastrophe, and warfare, and she traces architecture's relationship to the material, environmental, psychological, and geopolitical transformations brought on