Wicked problems revisited

Corner’swritingevokes theemancipatorypotential ofmapping, at a time when it was much more usual to demonise it as a form of elite discourse, facilitating governance by the powerful. Corner draws instead on the creative potential of themedium, deploying the figures of Gille Deleuze and F elix Guattari to demonstrate the constructive agency that can be enacted through cartographic practice in the fields of architecture, landscape and urban planning.He explores fourways inwhichnewpractices ofmapping are emerging in contemporary design and planning, which he terms as: ‘drift’, ‘layering’, ‘game-board’ and ‘rhizome’. Corner concludes thatmapping is not endless data accumulationbut is rather better seen as a practice of relational reasoning that intelligently unfolds new realities out of existing constraints.

The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention

Airports, mobility and the calculative architecture of affective control

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.

Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation: Geographies of Being-In Buildings

Despite the establishment of significant traditions of emotion research in many disciplines, there has been little discussion of the state and potential of the archaeological study of emotion. This paper aims to review archaeological approaches to emotion—to assess the significance of existing studies and outline the potential for the incorporation of emotion into archaeological research. It argues that the study of emotion in the past is both necessary and possible; it considers which understandings of emotion we might find most useful, how the archaeology of emotion might be carried out, and what are the most promising avenues to explore. In archaeology, both the sociobiological approach and one based on empathy have serious problems. After reviewing and rejecting the dichotomy between emotions as entirely biological, universal, and hard‐wired, on one hand, and entirely social and constructed, on the other, a view of emotions as historically specific and experientially embodied is advanced. Finally it i...

Emotion in archaeology

Part 1: architecture the architectural paradox questions of space architecture and transgression the pleasure of architecture. Part 2: the program architecture and limits violence of architecture spaces and events sequences. Part 3: disjunction abstract mediation and strategy madness and the combinative disjunctions de-, dis-, ex- six concepts.

Architecture and disjunction

Foreword Introduction The Manhattan Transcripts Part 1 'The park' Part 2 'The Street' Part 3 'The Tower' Part 4 'the Block' Postscripts, 1994 Edition Color Plates 1981 Illustrated Index 1982

The Manhattan Transcripts

A graphic description of the Parc de la Villette scheme which is already under way on site with the personal support and intervention of President Mitterand.

Bernard Tschumi

Papers

Architecture and disjunction

The Manhattan Transcripts

Cinegramme Folie: Le Parc de La Villette

Questions of space: Lectures on architecture

The state of architecture at the beginning of the 21st century