Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things, to understand humans they must also address the performances, as well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains. The contributions in this volume investigate the way time, performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a book about the constellations of people, places and things that emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal engagements.

This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category of material objects that have defined much research into what it means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the lives and interactions of past societies.

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Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things, to understand humans they must also address the performances, as well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains. The contributions in this volume investigate the way time, performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a book about the constellations of people, places and things that emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal engagements.

This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category of material objects that have defined much research into what it means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the lives and interactions of past societies.

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Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces

Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces

Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces

Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces

Overview

Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things, to understand humans they must also address the performances, as well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains. The contributions in this volume investigate the way time, performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a book about the constellations of people, places and things that emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal engagements.

This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category of material objects that have defined much research into what it means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the lives and interactions of past societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367869625
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/12/2019
Series: Archaeological Orientations
Pages: 462
Product dimensions: 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mikkel Bille is Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, where his research centers on the role of things and technologies from the recent past in contemporary society.

Tim Flohr Sørensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, where his research is focused on archaeological theory and themes in prehistoric and contemporary archaeology.

Table of Contents

List of figures ix

List of contributors xii

Acknowledgements xvii

1 Into the fog of architecture Mikkel Bille Tim Flohr Søorensen 1

2 On behalf of form: the view from archaeology and architecture Graham Harman 30

Part 1 Form and temporality 47

3 On shaping buildings Mikkel Bille Tim Flohr Sørensen 49

4 Immanent architecture Lesley K. McFadyen 53

5 Big affects: size, sex and Stalinist 'architectural power' in post-socialist Warsaw Michal Murawski 63

6 Architecture in ruins: Palladio, Piranesi and Kahn Jonathan Hill 84

7 Building lives Gavin Lucas 105

8 Archaeologies of an informal city: temporal dimensions of contemporary Andean urbanism Alison Kohn Shannon Lee Dawdy 121

9 Brussels' conflicting constructs (photo essay) Mark Minkjan Ingel Vaikla 141

Part 2 Atmospheres 157

10 A sense of place Mikkel Bille Tim Flohr Sørensen 159

11 Lighting up the atmosphere Tim Ingold 163

12 Traffic architecture: hidden affections Jürgen Hasse 177

13 Affective architecture in Ardnamurchan: assemblages at three scales Oliver J. T. Harris 195

14 A sense of architecture in the past: exploring the sensory experience of architecture in archaeology Serena Love 213

Part 3 Performance and process 231

15 Architecture in motion Mikkel Bille Tim Flohr Sørensen 233

16 Politics of architectural imaging: four ways of assembling a city Albena Yaneva 238

17 Homeless, home-making, and archaeology: "To be at home wherever I find myself" Larry J. Zimmerman 256

18 Into architecture: house-building and acentred personhood in Maputo, Mozambique Morten Nielsen 273

19 Sedimentation and sentiment: destabilizing architecture at the post-industrial Mexican periphery Jason Ramsey 287

20 Performance architecture: absence, place and action Nick Kaye 302

21 Reframing the ziggurat: looking at (and from) ancient Mesopotamian temple towers Augusta McMahon 321

Part 4 Disintegration and unfinishedness 341

22 Architecture becoming new spaces Mikkel Bille Tim Flohr Sørensen 343

23 Incipient ruination: materiality, destructive agencies and repair Tim Edensor 348

24 For love of ruins Þóra Pétursdóttir 365

25 Unfinishing buildings Michael A. Ulfstjerne 387

26 The disconnected experience of some designed places Jørgen Ole Bœrenholdt 406

27 Failure? An archaeology of the architecture of nuclear waste containment Rosemary A. Joyce 424

Index 439

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