Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation

Geographies of Being-In Buildings

Bibliographic Data

ID5791462
AuthorsP Kraftl (0000-0002-7915-4808, University of Leicester), P Adey (0000-0001-6807-4282, Keele University)
Year2008
Volume98
Issue1
Pages213-231
Publication date2008-02-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherAmerican Association of Geographers (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00045600701734687
OpenAlexW1993668971
LanguageEN
Citations received151
References cited67

Architectural design operates beyond symbolic and representational interpretation. Drawing on recent "nonrepresentational" geographies, we demonstrate how architectural space can be rethought through the concept of affect. We explore how individual buildings and their architects preconfigure, limit, and engender particular affects to accomplish very particular goals. Our analysis is based on two buildings in the United Kingdom: an ecological school and an airport. We demonstrate how affects both enable and constrain practices such as teaching, playing, and relaxing that render different buildings as uniquely meaningful places. The affects designated to and by these buildings are indispensable to the specification of particular styles of inhabitation, in ways not previously considered by architectural geographers. El diseño arquitectónico funciona trascendiendo las interpretaciones simbólicas y representativas. Con base en geografías "no representativas" recientes, demostramos cómo el espacio arquitectónico se puede reconsiderar a través del concepto de afecto. Exploramos cómo los edificios individuales y sus arquitectos preconfiguran, limitan y engendran afectos particulares para lograr metas muy particulares. Nuestro análisis se basa en dos edificios del Reino Unido: una escuela y un aeropuerto ecológicos. Demostramos cómo los afectos permiten y a la vez limitan prácticas tales como la enseñanza, el juego y la relajación que hace que edificios diferentes sean lugares singularmente significativos. Los afectos diseñados para y por estos edificios son indispensables para la especificación de estilos particulares de ocupación en maneras que los geógrafos arquitectónicos no habían considerado anteriormente. Key Words: affectbuildingsdesignLiverpool Airportnonrepresentational geographiesSteiner School关键词: 意境建筑物设计利物浦机场非表象地理学施泰纳学校Palabras clave: afectoedificiosdiseñoAeropuerto de Liverpoolgeografías no representativasSteiner School Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Mark Whitehead, John Horton, and Loretta Lees for their comments on an earlier version of this article. They also wish to thank three anonymous referees for their insightful critiques, and Audrey Kobayashi for her detailed and rigorous editorial advice

Art · Humanities · Sociology · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Urban Green Space and Health · Architecture

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