We are entering a new era of architecture that is technologically enhanced, virtual and synthetic. Contemporary architects operate in a creative environment that is both real and digital; mixed, augmented and hybridised. This world consists of ecstasies, fears, fetishisms and phantoms, processes and spatiality that can best be described as Surrealist. Though too long dormant, Surrealism has been a significant cultural force in modern architecture. Founded by poet Andre Breton in Paris in 1924 as an artistic, intellectual and literary movement, architects such as Le Corbusier, Diller + Scofidio, Bernard Tschumi and John Hejduk realized its evocative powers to propel them to 'starchitect' status. Rem Koolhaas most famously illustrated Delirious New York (1978) with Madelon Vriesendorp's compelling Surrealist images. Architects are now reviving the power of Surrealism to inspire and explore the ramifications of advanced technology. Architects' studios in practices and schools are becoming places where nothing is forbidden. Architectural languages and theories are 'mashed' together, approaches are permissively appropriated, and styles are not mutually exclusive. Projects are polemic, postmodern and surreally media savvy. Today's architects must compose space that operates across the spatial spectrum. Surrealism, with its multiple readings of the city, its collage semiotics, its extruded forms and artificial landscapes, is an ideal source for contemporary architectural inspiration.
Notes
"March/April 2018."
"02:2018"--Spine.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
About the guest-editor Neil Spiller
That was then, this is now and next / Neil Spiller
Architecture after the rain / Anthony Vidler
Surrealism and architectural atmosphere / Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Moody attunement in Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical City / Dagmar Motycka Weston
Alien Ossuary, the HR Giger Museum Bar / Neil Spiller
Making a spectacle of society (Thoughts on Surreality) / Nigel Coates
A simply marvellous reaction: autonomous sensory meridian response and the desk tutorial / Mark Morris
As the levee breaks: entrusting the surreal Mississippi / Elizabeth Williams Russell
Hearing trumpets, errant furniture and architectural magic: Arch Combinatoria and the Horizontal Forest / Natalie Gall
The shadowy thickening of space and time with chance: an interview with the Quay Brothers / Mark Morris and Neil Spiller
Silver parrots: mischievous characters and feathered aerialists / Perry Kulper
Magic crafsmanship: A glimpse into Bryan Cantley's Thirdspace / Neil Spiller
Architecture in aqueous flux: the CaCO₃ Depositional House / James Eagle
Transcending geometry: The Longhouse / Neil Spiller
Directions for getting lost, or, How to change your mind / Mark W. West and Mark West
Subterranean speculations: The Chthonopolis / Nic Clear
'Sur' Realism: after surrealism comes hyperrealism / Hernan Diaz Alonso.
Other title(s)
Celebrating the marvelous surrealism in architecture
Surrealism in architecture
ISBN
9781119254416 ((paperback))
1119254418 ((paperback))
OCLC
991783623
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