The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society; nature/culture; materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is the alternative to critical architecture?Mapping controversies is a research method and teaching philosophy that allows divides to be crossed. It offers a new methodology for following debates surrounding contested urban knowledge. Engaging in explorations of on-going and recent controversies and re-visiting some well-known debates; the analysis foregrounds; traces and maps the changing sets of positions triggered by design: the 2012 Olympics stadium in London; the Welsh parliament in Cardiff; the Heathrow airport runway extension; the Sydney Opera House; the Eiffel Tower. By mobilizing digital technologies and new computational design techniques we are able to visualize the variety of factors that impinge on design and track actors trajectories; changing groupings; concerns and modalities of action.The book places architecture at the intersection of the human and the nonhuman; the particular and the general. It allows its networks to be re-established and to run between local and global; social and technical. Mapping controversies can be extrapolated to a wide range of complex phenomena of hybrid nature.
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