Binding: Paperback
Description: Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture or anarchitecture through which we can imagine other and better worlds. Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture an analogous architecture an architecture of anarchy which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions veils queer playful spaces or visions from artwork and video games. In The Monster Leviathan Aaron Betsky traces anarchitecture through texts design and art of the twentieth and early twenty - first century and suggests that these ephemeral evocations are concrete proposals in and of themselves. Neither working models nor suggestions for new forms they are scenes just believable enough to convince us they exist or just fantastical enough to open our eyes. The Monster Leviathan gives students and lovers of architecture as well as those hoping to construct a better more sustainable and socially just future a set of tools through which they can imagine that such other worlds are possible. As Betsky eloquently articulates anarchitecture already exists and does not exist at all. It is the myth of building and all we have to do is find it.
Title: The Monster Leviathan Anarchitecture
Author(s): Betsky Aaron
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262546331
Pages: 464 Pages, 140 Color Photos
Publication Date: 1/9/2024
Category: Theory Of Architecture