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Virilio for architects / John Armitage.

By: Armitage, John, 1956- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Thinkers for architects: 12.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415819039 (paperback); 0415819032 (paperback).Subject(s): Virilio, Paul | Architecture -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 720.1 Summary: "Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including: - Oblique Architecture and Bunker Archeology - Critical Space and the Overexposed City - The Ultracity and Very High Buildings - Grey Ecology and Global Hypermovement In exploring Virilio's most important architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi. Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including:

Oblique Architecture and Bunker Archeology Critical Space and the Overexposed City The Ultracity and Very High Buildings Grey Ecology and Global Hypermovement

In exploring Virilio's most important architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi. Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123) and index.

"Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for Architects primes readers for their first encounter with his crucial texts on some of the vital theoretical debates of the twenty-first century, including: - Oblique Architecture and Bunker Archeology - Critical Space and the Overexposed City - The Ultracity and Very High Buildings - Grey Ecology and Global Hypermovement In exploring Virilio's most important architectural ideas and their impact, John Armitage traces his engagement with other key architectural and scientific thinkers such as Claude Parent, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Bernard Tschumi. Virilio for Architects allows students, researchers, and non-academic readers to connect with Virilio's distinctive architectural theories, critical studies, and fresh ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Series editor's preface (p. ix)
  • Illustration credits (p. xi)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
  • 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • Virilio's architectural career (p. 3)
  • 2 Analysing the oblique (p. 12)
  • Post-Second World War French architecture, the Écolc des Beaux-Arts, and Architecture Principe (p. 13)
  • 'Manhattan Out' (p. 15)
  • 'The Oblique Function' (p. 19)
  • The oblique church of Saintc-Bernadette du Banlay, Nevers (p. 22)
  • Analysing the oblique: bunker archeology (p. 29)
  • 3 Critical space (p. 40)
  • On the origins of Virilio's conception of critical space (p. 41)
  • 'The Overexposed City' (p. 44)
  • The interface of virtual space (p. 45)
  • The contamination of real space by virtual space (p. 47)
  • The struggle to redefine the unity of time and place in the overexposed city (p. 50)
  • Recombining the real space/virtual space divide (p. 53)
  • The sudden confusion between reception and perception, or the transformation of matter into light (p. 56)
  • Virilio: architectural theory and practice (p. 59)
  • 4 The big night; into the ultracity (p. 63)
  • 'The Big Night' (p. 64)
  • 'The Unknown Quantity': farewell to the Milky Way (p. 68)
  • From urban stasis to urban escape (p. 75)
  • Into 'The Ultracity': anti-ecological and escapist strategies in the city of extremes (p. 80)
  • Motorized and accelerated temporalities: the mutation of technical progress (p. 84)
  • Very high buildings "or exurbanism at altitude (p. 85)
  • 5 Bernard Tschumi, grey ecology, and the cities of the beyond (p. 89)
  • Tschumism (p. 92)
  • 'Grey Ecology' (p. 99)
  • Critical and hypercritical space (p. 101)
  • Global hypermovement (p. 106)
  • Hyperworld space or the revolution of the hypcrevent (p. 107)
  • 'In the Cities of the Beyond' (p. 107)
  • Thinking differently; grey ecology and the question concerning the contemporary world-city (p. 112)
  • Further reading (p. 115)
  • Bibliography (p. 117)
  • Index (p. 124)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of An, University of Southampton. He is the author and editor of numerous books on the work of Paul Virilio including Virilio and the Media and The Virilio Dictionary.