The Architecture of Transgression AD
Architectural Design

1. Auflage November 2013
136 Seiten, Softcover
Praktikerbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
Transgression will explore the idea that those working on and beyond the architectural periphery can make a positive impact on the mainstream. In much the same way as the avant-garde of a century ago - Dada, Surrealism and early Modernism - influenced and undermined established thinking and method, it shows how similarly transgressive practices are being adopted by architects to help reinvent and reposition the profession. The transgressive architect engages with conceptual art, pioneers urban intervention, interacts with informal development, breaks barriers of taste, shifts between research and practice, creates critical projects and is an activist and perhaps even a "new Utopian".
Contributors include: Can Altay, Kim Dovey, Chris Jencks, David Littlefield, Alistair Parvin, Doina Petrescu and Robin Wilson
Featured architects: Atelier d'architecture autogérée, EXYZT, Bernard Khoury, Office for Subversive Architecture and Bernard Tschumi.
Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has long been sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture of conservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized status as one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up new possibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact that working on the architectural periphery can make on the mainstream, as transgressive practices have the potential to reinvent and reposition the architectural profession: whether they are subverting notions of progress; questioning roles and mechanisms of production; aligning with political activism; pioneering urban interventions; advocating informal or incomplete development; actively destabilising environments or breaking barriers of taste. In this new dispersed and expanded field of operation, the balance of architectural endeavour is shifted from object to process, from service to speculation, and from formal to informal in a way that provides both critical and political impetus to proactively affect change.
Contributors: Can Altay, Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren, Kim Dovey, Chris Jenks, David Littlefield, Silvia Loeffler, Alistair Parvin, Louis Rice, Patrik Schumacher and Robin Wilson
Featured architects: atelier d'architecture autogérée, Lina Bo Bardi, Construire/La Machine, EXYZT, Didier Faustino/Bureau des Mésarchitectures, Lacaton & Vassal, N55, Catie Newell/*Alibi Studio, Wang Shu, Superflex and Bernard Tschumi
Helen Castle
6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
8 SPOTLIGHT
Visual highlights of the issue
14 INTRODUCTION
The Architecture of Transgression: Towards a Destabilising Architecture
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
20 Transgression: The Concept
Chris Jenks
24 Extenuating Circumstances: Salvaged Landscape
Catie Newell
32 Architecture and Transgression: An Interview with Bernard Tschumi
Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara
38 Transgression and Progress in China: Wang Shu and the Literati Mindset
Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren
44 Not Doing/Overdoing: 'Omission' and 'Excess' -Lacaton & Vassal's Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais
Robin Wilson