Elements of Architecture

Mikkel Bille is Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, where his research centers on the role of things and technologies from the recent past in contemporary society.Tim Flohr Sørensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, where his research is focused on archaeological theory and themes in prehistoric and contemporary archaeology.

• Into the Fog of Architecture Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SørensenOn Behalf of Form: The view from archaeology and architecture Graham HarmanPart I: Form and TemporalityOn Shaping Buildings Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SørensenImmanent Architecture Lesley K. McFadyenBig Affects: Size, Sex and Stalinist ‘Architectural Power’ in Post-Socialist Warsaw Michal MurawskiArchitecture in Ruins: Palladio, Piranesi and Kahn Jonathan HillBuilding Lives Gavin Lucas Archaeologies of an Informal City: Temporal dimensions of contemporary Andean urbanism Alison Kohn & Shannon Lee DawdyBrussels’ Conflicting Constructs Mark Minkjan & Ingel VaiklaPart II: AtmospheresA Sense of Place Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SørensenLighting up the Atmosphere Tim IngoldTraffic Architecture – Hidden affectionsJürgen HasseAffective Architecture in Ardnamurchan: Assemblages at three scales Oliver J. T. HarrisA Sense of Architecture in the Past: Exploring the sensory experience of architecture in archaeology Serena Love Part III: Performance and processArchitecture in MotionMikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SørensenPolitics of Architectural Imaging: Four ways of assembling a city Albena YanevaHomeless, Home-Making, and Archaeology: ‘To be at home wherever I find myself’ Larry J. ZimmermanInto Architecture: House-building and acentered personhood in Maputo, Mozambique Morten NielsenSedimentation and Sentiment: Destabilizing architecture at the post-industrial Mexican periphery Jason RamseyPerformance Architecture: Absence, place and action Nick KayeReframing the Ziggurat: Looking at (and from) ancient Mesopotamian temple towers Augusta McMahon Part IV: Disintegration and unfinishednessArchitecture Becoming New Spaces Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr SørensenIncipient Ruination: Materiality, destructive agencies and repair Tim EdensorFor Love of Ruins Þóra PétursdóttirUnfinishing Buildings Michael A. UlfstjerneThe Disconnected Experience of Some Designed Places Jørgen Ole BærenholdtFailure? An archaeology of the architecture of nuclear waste containmentRosemary JoyceIndex

"[...]the concepts worked with here are crucial to emerging ideas about atmosphere, the senses, movement, and assemblage in archaeology. If you are looking for new ways to think about the discipline and how we come to know things, this pretty, curious, and deliberately vague volume will be useful."Dr. Corin C.O. Pursell, Gardener