How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?

Leading architectural theorists exchange ideas with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière in order to debate what architecture's fundamental relationship is with aesthetics.

Joseph Bedford is Assistant Professor of History and Theory at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, degrees from Cambridge University and the Cooper Union, and is the founding editor of Attention: The Audio Journal for Architecture and the Architecture Exchange, a platform for theoretical exchange in architecture.
Jacques Rancière is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School, professor emeritus at the Université de Paris, VIII, and one of the more significant and influential philosophers of our time. He is the author of: The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1987) The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1989); Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (1998); The Politics of Aesthetics (2004); The Future of the Image (2007); The Emancipated Spectator (2010); Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (2010); Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (2013).