Beschreibung:
Renata Tyszczuk is an academic and artist whose work explores the relationship between global environmental change and provisionality in architectural thinking and practice. She is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. In 2013 she was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her research on Provisional Cities.
The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts.
Introduction: Provisional Cities 1. Fossil Traces 2. Disaster Zone 3. Proving Ground 4. Proxy World 5. Bounded Planet 6. Monster Earth 7. Temporary Home Epilogue: Precautionary Tales