WHAT IS CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE?
Edited by NIKOLAUS HIRSCH,
MARKUS MIESSEN
Published by Sternberg Press
English
240 pages
12 x 16.5 cm
Softcover
ISBN 978-3-943365-27-6
Price: 750 lei (€150)
Contributions by DAVID ADJAYE, TOM FOX & JAN NAUTA, OPERATIVE AGENCY, SALAHUDDIN AHMED, KADER ATTIA, NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN, ANDREW BENJAMIN, FRANCO “BIFO” BERARDI, BEN VAN BERKEL, NEERAJ BHATIA, FEDERICA BUETI, TONY CHAKAR, BORIS CHARMATZ, HEMAN CHONG, RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, BEATRIZ COLOMINA, DMITRY VILENSKY/ CHTO DELAT, OLAFUR ELIASSON, ETCÉTERA…, HU FANG, SOMETHING FANTASTIC, JESKO FEZER, HAL FOSTER, LIAM GILLICK, BABAK GOLKAR, BORIS GROYS, HOU HANRU, TOM HOLERT, JEFFREY INABA, JIANG JUN, ADAM KLEINMAN, ANDERS KREUGER, LARS BANG LARSEN, AARON LEVY, SUHAIL MALIK, BOYAN MANCHEV, RENZO MARTENS, REINHOLD MARTIN, NAEEM MOHAIEMEN, REZA NEGARESTANI, SIMON NJAMI, HANS ULRICH OBRIST, JORGE OTERO-PAILOS, ROBERT JAN VAN PELT, MONA HAHN & ROBERT PFALLER, JOHN RAJCHMAN, JULIANE REBENTISCH, PATRICIA REED, PEDRO REYES, MIGUEL ROBLES-DURÁN, DIETER ROELSTRAETE, MARTHA ROSLER, MARK VON SCHLEGELL, FELICITY D. SCOTT, ROBERT SEMBER, RUPALI GUPTE & PRASAD SHETTY, HENK SLAGER, SIMON STARLING, PELIN TAN, ROEMER VAN TOORN, JOANNA WARSZA, EYAL WEIZMAN, DANIEL WETZEL, AXEL WIEDER, LI ZHENHUA
Featuring artwork by ARMIN LINKE
In September 2011, Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen invited protagonists from the fields of architecture, art, philosophy, and literature to reflect on the single question of what, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice. Most of the sixty-four contributions presented in this volume were composed concurrently with the evictions of many of the Occupy movements, sustained turmoil in countries of the Arab Spring, and continued spasms in the global financial system, which, interestingly, all pointed at the question and problematic of whether architecture and our physical environment can still be understood as a res publica. A response by the editors takes the form of a conversation.
This book is first in a series on critical spatial practice developed alongside the Städelschule program of the same name. Each edition includes work by invited artists—the first includes newly commissioned work by the photographer Armin Linke, who documented the Occupy camp around the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
