Architectures of Life and Death

Andrej Radman is assistant professor of architecture and has been teaching theory courses and design studios at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment since 2004. Radman is a production editor and member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint. He is also a licensed architect with a portfolio of built and competition-winning projects. His latest publication, coedited with Heidi Sohn, is Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy.Stavros Kousoulas studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. Since 2012, as a researcher and lecturer, he has been part of the Theory Section of the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d’ Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint journal of architecture theory since 2014.

• AcknowledgementsPART ONE: METAMODELLING1. Introduction: Pings and Hups, Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas2. Ecologies of Fear and Desire, Andrew Ballantyne3. From Architecture Lifeless to Architecture Alive, Gökhan KodalakINTERMEZZO 1: PRIMINGAn Index of Affective Mechanisms: Deciphering the Pre-Subjective Power of Spatial Assemblages, Panagiotis Roupas and Yota PassiaPART TWO: ASIGNIFYING SEMIOTICS4. Reversed Encounters: Initial Findings on Japan-ness in Arakawa and Gins, Renske Maria van Dam5. A Cartography of Discourses on Architectures of Life and/or Death, Robert A. Gorny6. Lilacs Out of the Dead Land, Antonio PaolettiINTERMEZZO 2: PRIMACY OF ACTIONGrasping Ma, Renske Maria van DamPART THREE: PEDAGOGY OF SENSES7. The Garden of Sisyphus: A Design Proposal for the First (Public) Crematorium in Greece, Stavros Mouzakitis8. Towards a Playful Architecture: Crisis, Sense-Making and Questions Concerning Method, Dulmini Perera9. Radically Alive: A Disappearing Mining Town at Eur

Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas' Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment is a joyous probing of the complex and often unknowable ecologies that come to constitute architecture. The chapters collectively assemble a logic whereby the ‘ethico’ becomes the ‘eco’ of an architectural aesthetics which wavers restlessly between the living and an equally lively inorganic.