Ambiguous Territory

Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural

Ambiguous Territory
Chris Perry, David Salomon, Cathryn Dwyre, Kathy Velikov, Catherine Ingraham
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9781948765657
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Ambiguous Territory brings together the work of over forty architects, landscape architects, artists, and historians engaged in an exploration of art and design' s place in a time of environmental uncertainty and existential threat. Conceived in both environmental and disciplinary terms, the concept of "ambiguous territory" seeks to define conditions of uncertainty between nature and culture as well as architecture, art, and landscape. Ambiguous Territory advances the argument that it is through such forms of transdisciplinary practice that new opportunities emerge for creative thinking about our changing relationship to the Earth. What stories can art and design tell about the effects of global warming and its fundamental reordering of our perceived distinction between nature and culture? Ambiguous Territory brings together the work of architects, landscape architects, artists, and historians to present stories and depictions of a postnatural world and its effects of alienation on traditional forms of identity and meaning. Initially staged as an exhibition and related symposium at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan before traveling to the Elmaleh Gallery at the University of Virginia, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, the work included in this volume can be seen to engage estrangement as a productive site of intellectual and creative potential. Resisting at once naive optimism and cynical pessimism about the place of art and design in a time of environmental uncertainty and existential threat, Ambiguous Territory explores a opportunities for creative thinking and aesthetic practices that question as well as reinvent our relationship to the Earth, enabling us to see things anew, or simply to probe where we might be heading. Out of what kind of fog? Into what kind of New World?
Cathryn Dwyre is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute' s School of Architecture. She received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a B. A. in philosophy and geology from Colgate University. Dwyre previously served as managing editor of ViaBooks and its volume Dirt (MIT Press). Dwyre is co-principal of the art, design and curatorial practice pneumastudio, the work of which has been exhibited at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Design Museum of Barcelona, and NYU. Publishers that have featured pneumastudio' s work include Routledge, Actar, Prestel, and Wiley-Academy. Dwyre is also a co-recipient of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship and co-editor of a special issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press). Additionally, Dwyre is a member of the Board of Directors of Basilica Arts, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization in Hudson, NY. Chris Perry is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at Rensselaer' s School of Architecture where he is also the director of the Master of Science in Architecture program. He received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a B. A. in philosophy from Colgate University. Perry is a co-recipient of the Architectural League' s Young Architects Award and co-guest editor of AD: Collective Intelligence in Design (Wiley-Academy). Perry is co-principal of the art, design and curatorial practice pneumastudio, the work of which has been exhibited at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Design Museum of Barcelona, and NYU. Publishers that have featured pneumastudio' s work include Routledge, Actar, Prestel, and Wiley-Academy. Perry is also a co-recipient of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and co-editor of a special issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press). David Salomon is an Associate Professor of Art History at Ithaca College, where he is the Coordinator of the Architectural Studies program. He is the author of the book Symmetry: The One and the Many (DiTella, 2018) and co-author of The Architecture of Patterns (Norton, 2010). His research has appeared in the journals Grey Room, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, New Territories, Places, The Journal of Landscape Architecture, LA], and the Journal of Architectural Education, on topics ranging from the relationship between Land and Minimal Art and suburbia, the aesthetic function of infrastructure, and the prophetic function of design. David has previously taught architectural theory and design at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Syracuse University, University at Buffalo, and Pratt Institute. He has served as an invited juror at Harvard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia, Michigan, Sci-Arc, Cooper Union, and elsewhere. Kathy Velikov is an Architect, Associate Professor at University of Michigan' s Taubman College, founding partner of the research-based practice RVTR and the current President of ACADIA. Her work ranges from material prototypes that mediate matter, energy, information, and atmosphere between bodies and environments, to the investigation of territorial practices and urban infrastructures, working through the techniques of mapping and analysis, speculative design propositions, physical prototyping, exhibitions, and writing. Her work and writing has been published in the journals TAD, AD, Footprint, JAE, IJAC, Leonardo, New Geographies, eVolo, Volume, [bracket] Goes Soft, and MONU, and books such as Towards a Robotic Architecture, Third Coast Atlas, Infrastructure Space, and Hypernatura, Paradigms in Computing, Performative Materials in Architecture, and High Performance Homes. l. She is a recipient of the Architectural League' s Young Architects Award and the Canadian Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture, and is co-author of Infra Eco Logi Urbanism (Park Books). Catherine Ingraham is a Full Professor in the Graduate Program of Architecture at Pratt Institute, a program which she chaired from 1999-2005. She also has been a Visiting Faculty member at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, since 2016. Ingraham earned her Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins University and was an editor, with Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, of the critical journal Assemblage. Ingraham has lectured at multiple national and international schools of architecture and published widely in journals and book collections. Her books include Architecture, Animal, Human (Routledge Press, London 2006), and Architecture and The Burdens of Linearity (Yale University Press, New Haven 1998). She is currently working on two books, Architecture, Property and the Pursuit of Happiness and Worlds Between. Ingraham has won numerous fellowships and awards, including the Canadian Center for Architecture Fellowship, Graham Foundation grants, and MacDowell Colony residencies.
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ISBN-13: 9781948765657
Published: 1 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 254mm
Width: 165mm
Pages: 256

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