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Agency / Kurt Evans, Iben Falconer, Ian Mills, editors.

Contributor(s): Evans, Kurt | Falconer, Iben | Mills, Ian | Yale University. School of Architecture.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Perspecta: 45 Publisher: Cambridge Mass. : Mit Press, 2012Description: 207 p. : ill. some col. ; 30 cm.ISBN: 9780262517881; 0262517884.Other title: Perspecta 45 : Agency.Subject(s): Architectural firms | Architectural practice | Architecture -- Philosophy | Architecture -- 21st century -- PeriodicalsDDC classification: 720
Contents:
Agency -- Letter from the editor -- Agencies -- Architect as organizer or the way the world works / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen -- The agency interview : Three schools of architecture / Nader Tehrani -- Dissidence through architecture / Ines Weizman -- Cities, agency and change / Jaime Lerner -- A conversation south of the border / Urban-Think Tank -- Architecture is/as politics / Stefano Boeri -- The agency interview : The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) / Peter Eisenman -- The managerial aesthetics of concrete / Michael Osman -- Vann Molyvann: situating the work of Cambodia's most influential architect / Darryl Collins -- The agency interview : The litany of power, the legacy of modernism / Vann Molyvann -- An aerial Pax Americana / Enrique Ramirez -- Where are the missing spaces?: The geography of some uncommon interests / Rania Ghosn -- The agency interview : Expanding the field / Victor van der Chijs -- Public participation extreme / Bjarke Ingels -- Spomenik / Jan Kempenaers ; The tree in the system: shifting urban paradigms in mid-century London / Andrew Shanken -- Take-away / Keller Easterling -- The agency interview : The demands of a design-minded client / Timur Galen -- Creative architects: an introduction to the archives at the Institute of Personality and Social Research / Perspecta 45 & Pierluigi Serraino -- Sustainability beyond LEED: integrating performative daylight in the built environment / Thomas Auer, Joshua Vanwyck & Erik Olsen -- The agency interview : Architecture as the instrument / Preston Scott Cohen -- Le Corbusier: architect, agent de propagande / Ariane Lourie Harrison.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A handbook of best practices, strategies, and speculation for architecture's future.

Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with its social, political, and economic contexts; major events in world history have had correspondingly dramatic effects on the discipline. The Great Depression, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Katrina, for example, were all catalysts for architectural response and resulted in a diversification of the architect's portfolio. Yet far too often, architects simply react to changes in the world, rather than serving as agents of change themselves.

This issue of Perspecta --the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America--takes a broader view, using the concept of agency to explore the future of architecture. The retreat from liability, the barricade of theory, and the silos of specialization have generated a field that is risk-averse and reactive, rather than bold and active. Instead of assuming that architects can only throw up their hands in despair, the editors of this issue of Perspecta invite them to roll up their sleeves and get to work.

In Perspecta 45 , prominent architects, scholars, and artists investigate how architects can become agents for change within their own discipline and in the world at large.

Agency -- Letter from the editor -- Agencies -- Architect as organizer or the way the world works / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen -- The agency interview : Three schools of architecture / Nader Tehrani -- Dissidence through architecture / Ines Weizman -- Cities, agency and change / Jaime Lerner -- A conversation south of the border / Urban-Think Tank -- Architecture is/as politics / Stefano Boeri -- The agency interview : The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) / Peter Eisenman -- The managerial aesthetics of concrete / Michael Osman -- Vann Molyvann: situating the work of Cambodia's most influential architect / Darryl Collins -- The agency interview : The litany of power, the legacy of modernism / Vann Molyvann -- An aerial Pax Americana / Enrique Ramirez -- Where are the missing spaces?: The geography of some uncommon interests / Rania Ghosn -- The agency interview : Expanding the field / Victor van der Chijs -- Public participation extreme / Bjarke Ingels -- Spomenik / Jan Kempenaers ; The tree in the system: shifting urban paradigms in mid-century London / Andrew Shanken -- Take-away / Keller Easterling -- The agency interview : The demands of a design-minded client / Timur Galen -- Creative architects: an introduction to the archives at the Institute of Personality and Social Research / Perspecta 45 & Pierluigi Serraino -- Sustainability beyond LEED: integrating performative daylight in the built environment / Thomas Auer, Joshua Vanwyck & Erik Olsen -- The agency interview : Architecture as the instrument / Preston Scott Cohen -- Le Corbusier: architect, agent de propagande / Ariane Lourie Harrison.

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Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kurt Evans is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.

Iben Falconer is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.

Ian Mills is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.