UWSA FACULTY SHORTLISTS_ANNE BORDELEAU

UWSA Faculty Shortlists is an online platform for sharing influential readings related to art, architecture, design, and the cultural realm. The outline is simple: 5 books from each faculty member based on a theme of their personal interest, current research, or books they feel are of high importance to an architectural education. 

 

UWSA FACULTY SHORTLIST_004_ANNE BORDELEAU

Theme: “Five books and essays on the human condition, from writers who are more or less closely associated with critical theory, in fields that range from social anthropology through philosophy and architecture. These essays give a broad reading of shifting perceptions of what it means to be human in our Modern world, and the ways in which architecture can position itself in relation to these shifting definitions. All these texts are grounded in a wider historical context that harks back to the Ancient world, with an emphasis on Western thought.”

1.  Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

2. Agamben, Giorgio, “What is the Contemporary,” (in Agamben, Giorgio. What Is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

3. Connerton, Paul. How Modernity Forgets. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

4. Dalibor Vesely, “The Humanity of Architecture,” (in Leach, Neil. Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge, 1999.)

5. Baird, George. The Space of Appearance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

 

*Note: All above titles are available through the UW library catalogue. Go check them out!