How Long to Read Theorising the Project

How Long Does it Take to Read Theorising the Project?

It takes the average reader 5 hours to read Theorising the Project by Michael Tawa

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Theorising the Project aims to explore a thematic approach to architectural design. It conceptualises the design process in a general sense through seven key phases: developing a thematic framework and a line of inquiry to situate the project; investigating the project brief and mapping the project site to unravel potential themes and questions; situating technology as a formative condition for design; analysing precedents from the arts, literature and architecture to elaborate implications for design and considering representation as equally constitutive of the design undertaking. Key themes which are unpacked using extensive etymologies and metaphorical associations include theory, mapping, the makeshift, potentiality and agency. The concepts of assemblage and emergence are developed to contextualise the design process and architectural settings as enabling infrastructures for thinking and practice. The book contends that design is a matter of setting up strategic and productive thematic assemblages that are not directed to the translation or formal expression of meaning, but to the framing of strategic and enabling conditions for emergent sense realised within the existential and material conditions of architecture. Succinct analyses of precedents across several disciplines are used to foreground tectonic and compositional characteristics with adaptational capacity for space, time, materiality and architectural narrative. The thematic framework of the book engages theoretical material by Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Francois Jullien, Manuel De Landa and Jean-Luc Nancy. Illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author, the book will be of interest to practitioners and students of art, design and the built environment who wish to expand the foundational premises for design, widen the creative scope of their practice and exploit the thematic and metaphorical capacities of their project work.

How long is Theorising the Project?

Theorising the Project by Michael Tawa is 295 pages long, and a total of 75,225 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Theorising the Project Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 51 minutes to read Theorising the Project aloud.

What Reading Level is Theorising the Project?

Theorising the Project is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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