Emerging Issues #3: Border-Lines (And Passages)

[Arkitera Editor]

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ayşe Şentürer

Content:
Border-lines of life / cities / metropolis
Border-lines of architecture, border-lines of architectural profession
Borderlines of building, border-lines of topography, border-lines of private and public
Border-lines of ‘time and space’
Borderlines of activity
Border-lines of ‘thinking, designing, and building’
And problems and potentials of border-lines (and passages) in all levels.

Keywords: density, identity, difference, edge, surface, emergence, crisis, critical, flow, movement, in-between, multi-dimensionality, hybridization, layering, folding, unfolding, …

Bibliography / Seminar readings (theoretical aspects):
> Bhom, D. (1988) “Post Modern Science and Post Modern World” in The Re-enchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals, D. R. Griffin (ed.) State University of New York, Albany, pp.57-68.
> De Landa, M. (1999) “Extensive Borderlines and Intensive Borderlines” in AD: Architecture of the Borderlands, vol.69, 7-8/1999, pp.78-79.
> Deleuze, G. (1994) Difference and Repetition, Columbia University Press, NY.
> Charlesworth, E. (2005) City Edge: Case Studies in Contemporary Urbanism, Elsevier, Oxford.
> Giroux, H. A. & McLaren, P. ed., (1994) Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies, Routledge, New York and London.
> Grosz, E. (2002) “Architecture from the Outside” in Architecture from the Outside, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.57-74.
> Hurst Mann, L. (1996) "Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy" Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices, Thomas A. Dutton & Lian Hurst Mann, ed. University Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, pp.259-318.
> Linder, M. (1992) “Architectural Theory is no Discipline” in Strategies in Architecture, J. Kipnis, & R. Burdet, (ed.) The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.166-179.
> Lotus International (2001) Planning, Disturbances, Architecture, no. 110, 2001 Sept.
> Said, E. (1983) “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community” in The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, H. Foster (ed.) Bay Press, Port Townsend, Washington.
> Schaick, L.V. (2005) Mastering Architecture: Being a Creative Innovator in Practice, Wiley-Academy, Chichester.
> Şentürer, A. (2005) “Designing Today is to Design the Border-lines and the Passages” XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing Transforming Housing Environments through Design, September 27-30, 2005, CD of Proceedings, Pretoria, South Africa.
> Şentürer, A. (2005) “Zaman ve Mekanın Genişleme Aralığı Olarak ‘Sınır-Boyları’” III. Mimarlık ve Felsefe Sempozyumu: Zaman . Mekan / Mekan . Zaman, 18-19 Kasım 2005, İTÜ Taskisla, Istanbul.
> Venturi, R. (1965) Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, MOMA, New York.
> Virilio, P. (1998) “The Overexposed City” in Architecture Theory since 1968, M. K. Hays (ed.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.543-550.


Bibliography / Seminar readings (practical and theoretical aspects, and examples):
> AD Journals (issues after 1999, specifically, Architecture of the Borderlands, Surface Consciousness, Hyper Surface I, II, New Babylon, Emergence in Architecture)
> Lotus International Journals (issues after 1999)
> JA Journals (issues after 1999)
> Mimarlık Journals (issues after 1999)
> Articles and Journals on In-between Spaces, Hybridization and Hybrid Systems…