"Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture" is a compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post 9/11. This collection creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture by focusing on the works and writing of international artists such as Dan Graham, Marjetica Potrc, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal, or fictional in order to critically analyse the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning the monumental and technological imperatives. Diverse perspectives are mobilised in order to question paradigms of modernity and postmodernity, such as progress, irony and rationalism.
- ISBN10 190615533X
- ISBN13 9781906155339
- Publish Date 29 May 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Black Dog Press
- Imprint Black Dog Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English