Architecture, Materiality and Society

This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture and thus materiality as a whole has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency.

Autorentext
Werner Reichmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Anna-Lisa Müller, University of Bremen, Germany Marianne Stang Våland, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Susse Georg, Aalborg University, Denmark Magdalena ?ukasiuk, University of Warsaw, Poland Marcin Jewdokimow, Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University Warsaw, Poland Theresia Leuenberger, Technical University Berlin, Germany Endre Dányi, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Jarmin Christine Yeh, University of California, San Francisco, USA Robin Bartram, Northwestern University, USA Jeremias Herberg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany Jeffrey Chan, National University of Singapore

Inhalt

1. The Secrets of Architecture's Actions; Werner Reichmann and Anna-Lisa Müller 2. Designing a Counter: The Constitutive Entanglement of the Social and the Material in Architectural Design; Marianne Stang Våland and Susse Georg 3. The Mutual Influence of the Architecture and the Social in a Non-home; Magdalena ?ukasiuk and Marcin Jewdokimow 4. The Emergence of Architecture-Transformations. An Examination of Architecture Experiences from the Perspective of the Sociology of Space and the Actor-Network-Theory; Theresia Leuenberger 5. The Parliament as a High-Political Programme; Endre Dányi 6. The Lure of Restoration: Transforming Buildings and Bodies for Ever-Longer Life; Jarmin Christine Yeh 7. Infrastructures of Epistemic Moments: Buildings, Black Boxes, Improvement and Neighbourhood Change; Robin Bartram 8. Putting Architecture in its Social Space: The Fields and Skills of Planning Maastricht; Jeremias Herberg 9. Moral Agency in Architecture? The Dialectics of Spatializing Morality and Moralizing Spaces; Jeffrey Chan 10. The Actions of Architecture. Constituting a New Sociology of Architecture; Anna-Lisa Müller and Werner Reichmann