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Spatial Infrastructure
Essays on Architectural Thinking as a Form of Knowledge
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This book is ideal for architects, scholars, and students interested in architectural theory, critical discourse, and the advanced conceptual frameworks shaping contemporary and historic architectural practice. It will also appeal to readers engaged with the intersections of architecture, philosophy, and cultural studies.
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Spatial Infrastructure is a collection of essays crafting a self-consistent project that recasts architectural thinking as a form of knowledge by addressing a number of fundamental questions relevant to the reading of works across styles, time-periods, and geographic boundaries.
Jose Araguez's second book revolves around a new concept in architecture, spatial infrastructure, that operates both as a design tool capable of projecting architectural thinking forward, and as an analytical category that shifts our understanding of the history of the field and contemporary production. Taken together, the collection of essays presented here investigates some of the most intractable issues pertaining to architectural discourse, while also examining scientific, critical, and cultural dimensions where relevant.
Key subjects include a building's discursive building, engineering patents and spatial disposition in architecture, typological invention and sponge surfaces, 'the organic' at the intersection of architecture and philosophy, imageability in the context of an evolving market economy, language vis-à-vis self-determinacy in creative practices, a building's spatial kernel, and the possibility of architectural metacriticality.
Building upon each other to engender a coherent and distinct outlook on twentieth-century and contemporary architecture, these essays put forth a strong argument for architectural thinking that emerges from intimate knowledge of its capacities, as well as an ability to maintain epistemological clarity and integrity when purporting to expand our horizons of understanding.
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"The book reads as a window into an extended intellectual effort by its author, practicing architect, educator, and researcher Jose Araguez, who has spent 15 years constructing a theory of architecture through new categories, chiefly the notion of 'spatial infrastructure.' It claims the specificity of architectural thinking as a form of knowledge able to engage other disciplines without losing its identity. Araguez provides a meta-design device blending practice and theory, collapsing binary oppositions to envision the future of architectural thinking afresh." The Architect's Newspaper
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ISBN: 9781638400196
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 October 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 150.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 178
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About the Author
José Aragüez, PhD is a licensed practicing architect, writer, and educator. For years he has been leading design studios and seminars at schools of architecture in universities including Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Rice, Texas Tech, and University of Granada. Aragüez obtained a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. Earlier he graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Granada, Spain (Honorable Mention, University Graduation Extraordinary Award, and 1st National Prize in Architecture) and, from Columbia GSAPP, with a post-professional Master’s degree (Honor Award for Excellence in Design) and a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Architectural Research. Aragüez has lectured extensively across Europe and North America—including most of the top schools—in addition to the Middle East and Japan. His recent five-year project, involving the publication of The Building (2016, Lars Müller Pub.), is widely regarded in international circles as one of the most significant contributions to architectural discourse in the 2010s. His writings have also appeared in e-flux, Flat Out, EAHN Proceedings, Pidgin, The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2018), Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, 2022), and TECNOSCAPE: The Architecture of Engineers (Fondazione MAXXI, 2022), among other media. Aragüez is the founding principal of José Aragüez Architects, a practice for architecture, urbanism, and the production of discourse. In the past, he worked as an architect for Antonio J. Torrecillas (Spain), MVRDV (Rotterdam), and Idom/ACXT (London).
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