PDFS: DWELLING ACTS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTS SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTS BUILDING ACTS REPRESENTATIONAL ACTS RESEARCH IN ACTION
Push, Pull, Bend, Bind: Enacting Architecture Through Behaviour and Consequence
LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba
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Informality in Bogotá: Housing, Rapid Urbanization, and Public Space
JORGE COLÓN, University of New Mexico
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Poetic Action for Autism: An Intersubjective Approach
ALLISON DVORAK, MSH Architects
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Black Contemporary: Act of Construction
PETER P. GOCHÉ, Iowa State University
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Experiencing the Three-Legged Stool: Social, Economic and Environmental Education
Through the Mariposa Redevelopment
MARIANNE BELLINO HOLBERT, University of Colorado-Boulder
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Clouds of Action: Rethinking Urban Contexts as Differential and Participatory Fields
HANNAH HOPEWELL, Auckland University of Technology
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Inhabiting Difference: Integrating Rule Based Design and Cultural Ritual
JASON S. JOHNSON, University of Calgary
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Exposing Experiences: Research Based Placemaking
JENNY KEMPSON, Framework Cultural Placemaking (Seattle)
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Turbulence and the Creation of Home
GRAHAM LIVESEY, University of Calgary
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Heaven on Earth: Transient Dwelling and Adaptation in Downtown Houston
GREGORY MARINIC, University of Houston
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Digital Surrogacy in Ephemeral Sites
URSULA EMERY MCCLURE, Louisiana State University
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Returning Anew: Sequential Experience in the Jewett Art Center
KEVIN MOORE, Auburn University
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Patterning Temporary Atmospheres: Installations for the Experience of Sound and Light
CLAY ODOM, University of Texas
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Photography as a Phenomenological Tool in Architectural Representation
ERIKA PETRIC, Technical University of Graz
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Apocalyptic Architecture: Designing Within Resilient Detroit
ZIAD QURESHI, Iowa State University
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Free Zoning: Designing a Framework for Typological Evolution and Continual Building Acts
GEORG RAFAILIDIS, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Blind Spot: The User Usurps the Dwelling Act and the Designer’s Attention
NATALIJA SUBOTINCIC, University of Manitoba
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Toward Anonymity in Architecture: An Augmentation of the Historical Project of Autonomy
JOSHUA M. TARON, University of Calgary
Architecture over the past century has broadly been framed as a discipline concerned with and accountable for the production of certainty, authorship, authority and autonomy. For much longer than that, however, an alternative but not necessarily opposite agenda has been developing in the shadows - precisely at or beyond the limits of human perception and orientation. By privileging the former and ignoring the latter, a crisis has manifest over the existence of critical distance and delineation of effective boundaries that architecture has otherwise claimed as its sovereign disciplinary territory. This paper aims at outlining the contours of a dark matter running beneath the accessible surface of architecture where the new, the alien and the speculative operate. By reframing the historical Project of Autonomy as a radical withdrawal of objects from one another, absolute alienation can be extended into a contemporary action-agenda in architecture: the production of anonymity. The language of key figures surrounding experimental architecture and the autonomy debate during the 1960’s and 70’s is closely examined in order to outline the conditions and objectives of this new agenda. Particular attention is given to Manfredo Tafuri and Peter Eisenman due to their concise (and ironically corresponding) accounts of architecture’s complicity with the unknown and unknowable despite the problems it presents to the liberal human subject. Amidst this milieu, the possibility of political action is called into question, revealing “a new consciousness in architecture” (Eisenman, 1976) that manifests itself precisely through the reproduction of its own anonymity. Using the framework that emerges from this critique, it is argued that while the emancipatory socio-political act may have been extinguished for the liberal human subject, the possibility of autonomy remains for architecture in itself – even if it does not produce an autonomy for us.
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Call Before You Cut! The Importance of Tree Protection
ANNA THURMAYR, University of Manitoba
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AARON J. WEINERT, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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The Architectural Lessons of Anselm Kiefer’s La Ribaute: The Material of History and the Space of Dramatic Representation
STEPHEN A. WISCHER, North Dakota State University
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PAOLA ZELLNER, Virginia Tech
Atmosphere is generously supported by the Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund and the following professional associations: the Manitoba Association of Architects (MAA); the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects (MALA); and the Professional Interior Designers Institute of Manitoba (PIDIM).
Aspects of Atmosphere 2014 ACTION are being presented in collaboration with StoreFront Manitoba and aceartinc.