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Mute Icons: A Pressing Dichotomy in Contemporary Architecture is a groundbreaking treatise exploring the intricate relationship between silence and representation in architectural design. This thought-provoking book delves deep into the cultural significance and socio-political implications of architectural images. Recognizing the essential role that architectural aesthetics play within public spaces, Mute Icons scrutinizes preconceived notions of beauty while challenging traditional aesthetic values in architecture. By weaving together historical contexts and modern projects, it highlights how indeterminacy and monolithic forms contribute to the creation of architectural images that engage yet remain detached from their surroundings.
Throughout its pages, Mute Icons provokes readers to reconsider the possibilities of architectural expression, moving beyond sensory excess to embrace a more profound dialogue about form, context, and viewer interaction. With its compelling exploration of the mute icon's dichotomy—simultaneously familiar and strange—this book stands as a vital contribution to contemporary architectural discourse. Ideal for architects, students, and anyone interested in the intersection of design and cultural critique, Mute Icons serves as an inspiration for new avenues of architectural thought.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781945150869
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Actar D.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781945150869
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Actar D
Description:
Mute Icons dwells in the paradox between silence and sign and aims to debunk a false dichotomy within criticaldiscourse about the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image.
Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and de-familiarisation play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet engaging architectural images. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the show value of sensation making, the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons.
Mute Iconssuggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity.Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.
Throughout its pages, Mute Icons provokes readers to reconsider the possibilities of architectural expression, moving beyond sensory excess to embrace a more profound dialogue about form, context, and viewer interaction. With its compelling exploration of the mute icon's dichotomy—simultaneously familiar and strange—this book stands as a vital contribution to contemporary architectural discourse. Ideal for architects, students, and anyone interested in the intersection of design and cultural critique, Mute Icons serves as an inspiration for new avenues of architectural thought.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781945150869
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Actar D.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781945150869
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Actar D
Description:
Mute Icons dwells in the paradox between silence and sign and aims to debunk a false dichotomy within criticaldiscourse about the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image.
Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and de-familiarisation play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet engaging architectural images. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the show value of sensation making, the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons.
Mute Iconssuggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity.Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.