The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture

This book convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century.

Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge 2005); Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (Minnesota 2012); and co-editor of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge 2014). Jeremy White is an architect and a game designer, and a lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-editor of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge 2014).

Introduction 1 Contemporary Architecture, Crisis and Critique Part I Designs 2 Public Face and Private Space in the Design of Contemporary Houses 3 Designs on Disaster: Architecture and Humanitarianism 4 Architectures of Risk and Resiliency: ""Embedded Security"" in the Redesign of Sandy Hook Elementary School 5 When the Megaproject Meets the Village: Formal and Informal Urbanization in Southern China6 After the Countermonument: Commemoration in the Expanded Field Part II Materiality 7 Architecture of Memory, Past and Future 8 Life and Death in the Anthropocene: A Short History of Plastic 9 The Space of Relations: Body, Emotion and Empathy in Architectural Experience 10 Edges: Body, Space, and Design 11 Habit's Remainder 12 Ephemeral Architecture: Toward Radical Contingency Part III Alterity 13 Inhabiting Ruins: Architecture and the Limits of Occupation in Liberia 14 Borderlands Architecture: Territories, Commons and Breathing Spaces 15 Camps: Contemporary Environments of Autonomy, Necessity, and Control 16 Defensive Alterity in Contemporary SriLankan Architecture 17 Recasting