Description: Leading architectural theorists exchange ideas with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière in order to debate what architecture's fundamental relationship is with aesthetics.
Brief description: Joseph Bedfordis Associate Professor of History and Theory at Virginia Tech, USA. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, degrees from Cambridge University and the Cooper Union, and is the founding editor of Attention: The Audio Journal for Architecture and The Architecture Exchange, a platform for theoretical exchange in architecture.
Review Quotes:
"The Architecture Exchange has found a unique means to expand and advance architectural thinking and plumb the possibilities that lie between theory and architecture. Rather than simply transcribing conference presentations, How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible? models real exchange (fittingly enough) among the collection's participants. Each entry has been workshopped, in person and by email, by the group, giving a depth to the texts that transforms this from a book to a robust seminar on Rancière's relevance to architecture." --Sarah Whiting, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture
"As an exploration of ethical, representative, and aesthetic concerns, How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible? offers new insights into longstanding considerations, specifically the capacities of philosophy and architecture to each inscribe the other. Drawing on the work of philosopher Jacques Rancière, in dialogue with contemporary architectural thinkers, this collection explores the interiority and exteriority of architecture (as a physical entity and discursive framework) as a relationship between aesthetics and politics. How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible? does not offer the definitions of new norms; instead, it questions capabilities (and limitations)." --John McMorrough, University of Michigan