Architecture Thinking Across Boundaries: Knowledge Transfers Since the 1960s

Abstract

Whereas most recent writing on architectural theory has been concerned with what has been said and written, and by whom, this book is concerned with how theory has been developed and transmitted. It decentres the traditional figure of the architect as synthesizer and creative visionary and focuses on reciprocal relations and situated networks. Translation; interdisciplinary exchanges; transfers from practice to theory and the reverse; the international circulation of ideas, with the resulting transformations and resistances – these are some of the main stops in an exciting new journey. Architecture Thinking Across Boundaries: Knowledge Transfers since the 1960s offers a rich understanding of the landscape of architectural thought as it formed over the last six decades. The authors of this book go beyond the narratives, agents, contexts and production modes that have primarily been considered the highlights of this landscape. They critically enquire the interstices – geographical, temporal and epistemological – that lie between and behind such focal points and show how unstable, vital and eminently mobile the processes of thinking about architecture have been.