Thinking Architecture with an Indian Ocean Aquapelago
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13100722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsay Bremner (0000-0002-7687-8325, University of Westminster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 284-310 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GeoHumanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2373566x.2016.1234353 |
| OpenAlex | W2547351772 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article takes up the charge of thinking architecture with one of the Indian Ocean’s central coral atoll formations, the Maldives archipelago. It is undertaken as a critique of the concept of the archipelago as deployed in architecture since the 1970s. Architects have used the archipelago as a metaphoric metageographical concept based on a land–sea binary, to conceive of architecture as autonomous from its environments. This permits the discipline exemption from its contexts and frames its engagement with the diverse mobilities of contemporary globalization. To counter this, the article draws from a broad body of literature familiar to readers of GeoHumanities, namely island studies, urban island studies, political ecology, and thinking with water, to undertake a reading of the Maldives as an oceanic aquapelago, as an alternative metageographical concept for architecture in today’s globalized world
Archaeology · Archipelago · Atoll · Geography · Globalization · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Coastal and Marine Management · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Architecture · Geology · Oceanography
Migration, Discourse, and Water-Place
Anthropocene Islands
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Observations on the Concept of the Aquapelago Occasioned by Researching the Maldives
Ram Setu and Delusions of Archaeological Grandeur
The More-than-Human Ethics of an Underwater Hotel
Atoll engineering in the Maldives
The creation of the Muraka, a Maldivian underwater hotel
Islands of relationality and resilience
A journey through 'infraspace
Roadwork
The Indian Ocean
The Myth of Continents
The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms
Capitalism in the web of life
The Global City
Returning from the Horizon
Fluid ontologies in the search for MH370
Reading the Planetary Archipelago of the Torres Strait
Island Movements
The Idea of the Archipelago
Envisioning the archipelago
Riding the Globalization Wave (1974-2004)
Futures, fakes and discourses of the gigantic and miniature in ‘The World’ islands, Dubai
Of other seas
Folded ocean
We Have Never Been Modern
The enforcement archipelago
Relational Places
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
Dreams so Big Only the Sea Can Hold Them
Towards a minor global architecture at Lamu, Kenya
Politics of Nature
Vibrant Matter
Earth, sky, wind, and weather
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |