Remote Practices Architecture at a Distance

by Mindrup, Matthew; Chee, Lilian

• ISBN13: 9781848225312
• ISBN10: 1848225318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-09-14
• Publisher: Lund Humphries

Summary

As advancements in transportation and technology continue to close the gap between architect, client, builder and site, critique, and place, this book considers how architects, designers, theorists, and critics design, describe, and critique future and past constructions in absentia. This book engages with remote practice, providing students, academics, and professionals with the understanding and tools they need to rethink the role of the distant and disconnected in making, thinking, and writing architecture—a skill which is becoming increasingly important in contemporary education and practice. Bringing together a collection of 16 essays and creative works from a diverse and respected group of scholars and designers, this book reflects upon the challenges and opportunities which remote practices occasion in architecture.

Author Biography

Matthew Mindrup is Senior Lecturer of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Sydney and currently its Director of Undergraduate Programs in Architecture Design and Planning. Lilian Chee is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore (NUS), where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster.

Table of Contents

In Praise of the Remote, M. Mindrup; Part One: Practice and Pedagogy. Introduction; Toward a Political Ecology of Architecture, J. Ockman; Origins of Remote and Global Architectural Practices, P. Emmons; On the Remoteness of CAD’s Gesture, J. Crow; Extreme Interiority, N. Cridge; Learning from Distance, L. Landrum; Epistolary Architecture, Despland-Lichtert & Sullivan Shea; ‘Professionalism’ and Care in a Pandemic Year, N. Stead; Fresh Eyes, M. Mindrup & J. LaCoe. Part Two: Critique and Performativity. Introduction; Seven Studies for ‘A Holding’, J. Rendell; Critical Proximities, C. Smith; The Making of Informated Space, I. Sotiriou; An Emotional Critique of Remote Practices, P. Ursprung; Drawing IN, B. Mitchell; A Digital Table to Eat Together, G. Aquije Zegarra; The Making of Blind Spot, Film Place Collective; Amidst: Afterimage, Affect, Architecture, L. Chee; Conclusion