Speculative Coolness

Name: Speculative Coolness
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SKU: 9781032318868
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Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual

By Bryan Cantley

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Speculative Coolness by Bryan Cantley delves into the emergence of a hybrid realm between reality and virtuality, a space largely untapped by conventional architecture. The book presents a curated selection of experimental architectural projects by Cantley that explore and speculate on the conditions and media logics defining this new liminal territory. Showcasing both completed works and ongoing developments, these projects straddle the boundary between architectural practice and its documentary media, accompanied by critical essays from leading practitioners and theorists that contextualise their cultural and disciplinary significance.
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This book is ideal for architects, design theorists, students of architecture, and readers interested in the interplay between digital media and contemporary architectural practice, as well as those keen on experimental and speculative design approaches.

This book presents a selected body of Bryan Cantley's work, showcasing projects which seek to understand and explore the conditions, contexts, and media logics which govern a new territory of highly experimental architecture/design praxis, and to speculate on the Architecture[s] which it might occupy, and which might occupy it.

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Cantley’s work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual, which mainstream architecture has yet to exploit. Speculative Coolness surveys and collects a highly experimental architecture/design praxis.

This book presents a selected body of his work, showcasing projects that seek to understand and explore the conditions, contexts, and media logics that govern this new territory. It speculates on the Architecture[s] which it might occupy, and which might occupy it.

Featuring both resolved projects and works that are under development, this anthology represents constructs that locate themselves somewhere between architecture and its documentative media. The projects are presented alongside a series of critical essays written by pre-eminent architectural practitioners and theorists. These essays explore the disciplinary, social, and cultural context of the work, underscoring the importance of these explorations to the expansion of disciplinary knowledge.

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Daniel K. Brown in Architecture New Zealand praises the book as "a tour de force in speculative architectural representation," highlighting its critical exploration of the digital and analogue voices of architecture. Aaron Betsky, Professor at Virginia Tech, lauds Cantley's work for its fusion of computer generation and handcraft, describing the drawings as evocative architectural objects and the book as an accessible collection of his best work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032318868

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 289 Halftones, color; 289 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

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Width: 210.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 278

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About the Author

Author: Prof. Bryan Cantley:

Bryan’s work attempts to blur the undefined zone between architecture and its representation. In 1992, Bryan Cantley established Form:uLA, a practice that explores the boundaries of architecture, representation and the role of experimental drawing, within the discourse of visionary space. He is a Full Professor of Design at California State University Fullerton. Bryan has lectured at a number of architecture schools internationally including The Bartlett School of Architcture, SCI-arc, and UCLA. He has been visiting faculty at SCI-ARC and Woodbury University. Bryan was the recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant in 2002. His work is in the Permanent Collection at SFMOMA, as well as the personal collection of Thom Mayne. Bryan has shown work in a number of institutions, including SFMOMA, and solo exhibitions at The Bartlett, SCI-arc, and UCLA. His first monograph, Mechudzu, was published by Springer in 2010.

Editor: Peter J Baldwin:

Peter is a registered and chartered Architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture, M, Arch Programme Leader and Director of Scholarship and Professional Practice at the University of Lincoln’s School of Architecture and the Built Environment. Peter has taught and lectured at Schools across the UK. Peter’s research explores the role of the drawing as an environment for speculation and the generative potential of non-traditional modes of architectural representation. Peter has lectured and taught in schools of architecture across the UK and his work has been published and exhibited internationally, most recently as part of the "In Memoriam" Exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture 2020.

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