Diplomatic: Letter from the Architectural Enclave

· Jie Zhang (M.Arch), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture & Planning
Электрондук китеп
152
Барактар
Рейтинг жана сын-пикирлер текшерилген жок  Кеңири маалымат

Учкай маалымат

Seeing Architecture as a political art, this book concerns itself with boundaries: those of regimes, of culture, of law, and of social strata. In a silent crisis where sustained inscription of physical and social boundaries evacuates urban space into archipelagos of enclaves, Architecture with only ambiguous claims of public space is rendered both an accomplice and a victim, impotent against forces of capital and concerns of security.

Exposing the absurdities in urban geopolitics and persistent spatial logics of exclusivity is as important as proposing to hack into them. Critical of the innocence of so-called public space and the underlying architectural impasse, the book offers an investigative commentary on the state of urban enclaves, while speculating on alternative strategies by designing an embassy, a bounded pseudo-extraterritory and the epitome of an enclave.

Through absurd couplings and blatant image-making, a seemingly open US embassy is proposed for Beijing as an imploded fragment of a boundary, its incompleteness buttressed by other territories of privilege and its disparate barriers articulated as a mechanism of filtration. Away from popular strategies of conceptual and spatial blurring, the book defines an architectural porosity to orchestrate spaces of varying openness, as a nuanced response to both the embassy’s double identities and schizophrenic agendas of city-building.

With an architecture that is diplomatic by function and diplomatic by disposition, one experiments with an agency beyond the single pursuit of public-ness and an escape from the ideological enclave of positivism. Ultimately, the goal is to suggest and develop a methodology of designing with oppositions, irony and latency.

Автор жөнүндө

Jie Zhang is a designer, researcher, writer and critic invested in deciphering contemporary spatial phenomena and provoking critical positions as a method towards both resistance and progress. She has taught at MIT and served as a design critic at various institutions in the US. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. For further inquiries, please contact [email protected].

Бул электрондук китепти баалаңыз

Оюңуз менен бөлүшүп коюңуз.

Окуу маалыматы

Смартфондор жана планшеттер
Android жана iPad/iPhone үчүн Google Play Китептер колдонмосун орнотуңуз. Ал автоматтык түрдө аккаунтуңуз менен шайкештелип, кайда болбоңуз, онлайнда же оффлайнда окуу мүмкүнчүлүгүн берет.
Ноутбуктар жана компьютерлер
Google Play'ден сатылып алынган аудиокитептерди компьютериңиздин веб браузеринен уга аласыз.
eReaders жана башка түзмөктөр
Kobo eReaders сыяктуу электрондук сыя түзмөктөрүнөн окуу үчүн, файлды жүктөп алып, аны түзмөгүңүзгө өткөрүшүңүз керек. Файлдарды колдоого алынган eReaders'ке өткөрүү үчүн Жардам борборунун нускамаларын аткарыңыз.