Architectural Agents
The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8063579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annabel Jane Wharton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Architectural agents (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693382.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4255842343 |
| Open Library | OL27179330M |
| ISBN | 9780816693382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Buildings are not benign; rather, they commonly manipulate and abuse their human users. Architectural Agents makes the case that buildings act in the world independently of their makers, patrons, owners, or occupants. And often they act badly. Treating buildings as bodies, Annabel Jane Wharton writes biographies of symptomatic structures in order to diagnose their pathologies. The violence of some sites is rooted in historical trauma; the unhealthy spatial behaviors of other spaces stem from political and economic ruthlessness. The places examined range from the Cloisters Museum in New York City and the Palestine Archaeological Museum (renamed the Rockefeller Museum) in Jerusalem to the grand Hostal de los Reyes Católicos in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Las Vegas casino resorts. Recognizing that a study of pathological spaces would not be complete without an investigation of digital structures, Wharton integrates into her argument an original consideration of the powerful architectures of video games and immersive worlds. Her work mounts a persuasive critique of popular phenomenological treatments of architecture. Architectural Agents advances an alternative theorization of buildings’ agency—one rooted in buildings’ essential materiality and historical formation—as the basis for this significant intervention in current debates over the boundaries separating humans, animals, and machines
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Intervention (counseling · Las vegas · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Visual arts · Digital Media and Philosophy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Psychology · Architecture · Human factors · History · Law
Constructed contrasts and manipulated experiences
Shops, food, regeneration and a controversial signature building in Turin, Italy
Mobilizing Cathedral Metaphors
Flagships in a sea of unbelief? Christian affiliation around big church buildings in England
Capturing the Spirit of Singular Places
Buildings as non‐human narrators
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |