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Alt-Form
Indeterminacy and Disorder

Viola Ago (Guest editor), V Ago (Author)

9781119748793, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 10 March 2022

128 pages
27.4 x 21.6 x 1 cm, 0.522 kg

In a world that is missing a central theoretical voice in architecture, now more than ever it is time to solicit emergent voices on the topic of‘alternative formalisms’(Alt-Form). This issue of AD aims to reach peripheral disciplines in order to support an architecture that no longer operates as a standalone field of study, and is rather one that responds to broader, urgent and pluralistic cultural shifts.

In the existing contemporary landscape of visually oriented fields of study, casual compositions and other formless expressions have begun to re-emerge, particularly in the disciplines of art, architecture and popular image culture. In architecture, with the rise of the digital, the last two decades have witnessed a field in pursuit of novel styles through the use of the latest digital tools. More recently, however, over the last five years or so, the field has experienced a more novelty-apathetic attitude, permeated with project proposals that resist the urge to offer immediate solutions in favour of enmeshment with a contemporary condition characterised by duress, destruction, uncertainty and other formless becomings. This AD explores this new, emerging world.

Contributors: Suzanne Cotter, Andrew Culp, Jack Halberstam, Jeff Halstead, Carolyn Kane, Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, Carl Lostritto, Thom Mayne, V Mitch McEwen and Kristina Kay Robinson, Anna Neimark, Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, Dorina Pllumbi, Faysal Tabbara, and Dalena Tran.

Featured architects: AGENCY, Architecture and Other Things, Atelier Office, Dream the Combine, First Office, MIRACLES, and Morphosis.

About the Guest-Editor 5
Viola Ago

Introduction 6

Embracing Uncertainty
How Policies Shape the World
Viola Ago

Chaos, Creativity, Change 14

The Cybernetic Logic of Late Capitalism
Andrew Culp

Architectonisation 22

The Spatio-Temporal Rhythms of Contemporary Sculptural Practices
Suzanne Cotter

Kombinat 30

The Unseen and Their Architectural Oddkins
Dorina Pllumbi

Painterly, Misft and Redundant 36
Challenging Precision and Optimisation with Scavenging
Faysal Tabbarah

Moving Pictures 44

Three Installations for Public Life
Jennifer Newsom

Heavyweight  52

Undermining Power Structures Through Spatial Destabilisation and Force Simulation
Jeffrey Halstead

Rude Forms Among Us 60

Contemporary Construction of Prehistoric Ruins
Anna Neimark

‘Strange Networks’ 68

Inhabiting the Boundary Condition
A Conversation with Thom Mayne
Viola Ago

Chromophobia in the ‘Smart’ City 78
Carolyn L Kane

Images of Former 84

Futures and Reformations
Dalena Tran

Rendering 90

Representational Atmosphere
Appropriating Formalisms Around Invisible Objects in Film
Carl Lostritto

Signature Urbanism 96

Shaping Subperceptual Forms for the New Multispectral City
Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller

Rebellious Architecture 104

Bayou Reconstructed
V Mitch McEwen and Kristina Kay Robinson

An Aesthetic of Collapse 114

Alternative Form, Disorder and Indeterminacy
A Conversation with Jack Halberstam
Viola Ago

From Another Perspective 120

Sculpting the Forest of Symbols

Nick Ervinck

Neil Spiller

Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
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