Informal Architectures

By Gregory Cowan, Sean Topham, Marjetica Potrč, Eyal Weizman, Rita McKeough, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Aoife Mac Namara, Patrick Keiller, Anthony Kiendl, Kim Adams, Andrea Phillips, Jimmy Durham, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Paul Antick, Bernie Miller, William Pope.L, Lance Blomgren, Knowles Eddy Knowles, Donald Goode, Elle Flanders, Sara Raza, Candice Hopkins, Joel McKim, Arni Haraldsson

Subjects: Modern Architecture, Architecture, Exhibitions, Contemporary art, Architecture in art, Spatial theory, Modern Art

Description: "[A] compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post-9/11.The work gathered here creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal, or fictional in order to critically analyse the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning technological imperatives and the monumental"--P. [4] of cover.