Mute Icons

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A Pressing Dichotomy in Contemporary Architecture

By Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich

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Mute Icons explores the paradox between silence and sign to challenge conventional ideas of beauty in architecture. It investigates how architectural images can be withdrawn and enigmatic, rather than overtly narrative or sensational, by drawing on historical precedents and contemporary projects. The book proposes a resolution to the perceived divide between formal innovation, social responsibility, and economic austerity, using the work of the design studio P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S as a provocative case study.
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This book is ideal for architects, students of architectural theory, and readers interested in critical perspectives on design aesthetics and cultural symbolism within the built environment.

Mute Icons dwells in the paradox between silence and sign and aims to debunk a false dichotomy within criticaldiscourse about the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image.

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Mute Icons dwells in the paradox between silence and sign and aims to debunk a false dichotomy within critical discourse about the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image.

Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both a disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm. It intersects historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity, and de-familiarisation play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant, and yet engaging architectural images.

No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the show value of sensation making, the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons.

Mute Icons suggests a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility, and economic austerity. Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.

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Mute Icons is praised for redefining the architectural icon as a 'cultural and social irritant' inviting diverse interpretations, according to Stir World. John Hill from A Daily Dose of Architecture highlights the book's integration of nearly 5,000 years of architectural precedent rendered as 'familiar yet strange', linking these insights to the innovative projects of the PATTERNS studio. The tripartite structure offers a thoughtful conceptual bridge between historic context and modern design practice.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781945150869

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Edition: English

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 250g

Pages: 310

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Arts & Culture Georgina Huljich Marcelo Spina Non-Fiction

About the Author

Marcelo Spina, is a licensed Architect in Argentina and in the United States. He is one the principal of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. He received his B.Arch from the National University of Rosario, Argentina [1994], and a M.Arch from Columbia University, New York [1997]. In New York, he worked for Reiser+Umemoto and Keller Easterling before starting on his own. Spina is a Design Faculty at SCI-Arc since 2001, and the coordinator of the Architectural Technologies Program. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Yale, Syracuse, Harvard, Berkeley, Vienna, Innsbruck, and Di Tella among others. He is the Co-Author of Embedded [ACDCU, 2010], Co-Editor of Material Beyond Materials [SCI-Arc 2012] and Co-Curator of "Matters of Sensation" at Artists Space [2008]. His work has been published and exhibited widely and Spina has given more than 70 lectures around the world. Georgina Huljich is an architect and one the principals of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. She received her B.Arch from the National University of Rosario, Argentina [2001], and a M.Arch from University of California, Los Angeles [2003]. Georgina has previously worked at the Guggenheim Museum, Dean/Wolf Architects in New York, and Morphosis in Los Angeles. Huljich is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at UCLA and the Director of the Summer Program Institute. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Yale, UPenn and Syracuse, a Maybeck Fellow at UC Berkeley and a Visiting Critic at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the Co-Author of Embedded [ACDCU, 2010] and Co-Curator of "Matters of Sensation" at Artists Space [2008]. Her work has been widely published and exhibited around the world.