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Transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises In architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have defined the discipline and its extended field. However, in recent decades, their frequency and radicality have surged from rather random, marginal and/or idiosyncratic phenomena. While their sudden rise can be explained as a reaction to the compulsive normativity of modernity, the deeper roots are to be sought elsewhere: the recent waves of transgressiveness are intimately linked to the hypercrisis affecting our world today – spanning ecological, political, economic, and social dimensions, and catalysing fundamental mutations and disorders. Some of these transgressive acts are motivated by a desire to dismantle a malfunctioning system, but more often than not breaking the rules has become an inherent survival tactic amid urgent social challenges. In our era of after-modernity, transgression emerges not just as an act of defiance, but reveals a new paradigm at work – a critical framework for reimagining the built environment, challenging established orders, and advocating for the rights of marginalised populations. Drawing on a rich array of theoretical insights and empirical case studies from multiple countries, this volume provides a unique, forward-looking perspective on transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises.

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Author:   Carmen Popescu ,  Carmen Popescu ,  Simon Baker ,  Gülsüm Baydar
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789462704657

ISBN 10:   9462704651
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   03 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Speaking Transgression in Times of Crises Carmen Popescu Part One: Recodifying Inhabiting: On So cietal Mutations and Resituating Margins 1 “The Single-Persons Project”: Council Housing Beyond the Nuclear Family Savia Palate 2 The Representability of Interstitial Scenes Sarah Mills and Simon Baker 3 On Relational Histories of Spatial Law and Transgression Tiago Castela 4 On Weeds and Hospitality: An Architectural Point of View on (Bio)Diversity Carmen Popescu Part Two: Bending Politics: On Moving the Lines 5 Limit(ation)s: Squatting in Naldöken, Izmir Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanc Kılınç, and Ahenk Yılmaz 6 Living with the Museum: Uses of Memory and the Normalization of Struggles Leandro Peredo 7 Climbing Over, Stepping Across: Transgression as Lived Alternative in the Practice of Stalker Patrick Düblin 8 Liminality as Transgression: The Urban Ritual of XR Francesca Romana Dell’Aglio Part Three: Deviating Theory: On Co ncepts and Devices 9 Transgression—Where Experience Meets with Concept? Tschumi’s “Paradox of Architecture” Revisited Ole W. Fischer 10 Trapping, Dismembering and Crucifying Angels: Tracing the Sacred in Hejduk’s Bovisa Jesse Rafeiro 11 Entwined Spaces of Boredom, Desire, and Transgression Christian Parreno About the Authors

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Carmen Popescu is professor of architectural history at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine. Carmen Popescu is professor of architectural history at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine.

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