This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the relationship between research and design in architecture through cartography and spatial analysis.
It proposes three distinct modalities: tool, operation and concept, showing how these methods lead to discursive aspects of architectural work and highlighting mapping as an instrument in developing architectural form. It emphasizes the importance of place and time as fundamental terms with which to understand the role of mapping. An investigation into architectural discourse, this book will appeal to academics and researchers within the discipline with a particular interest in theory, history and cartography.
PART 1: THE EMERGENT IN MAPPING 1. THE HISTORICAL EMERGENCE OF ‘MAPPING’ MAP USE, SUBVERSIVITY AND THE DIGITAL 1.1 Mental Maps 1.2 Map Use in Art 1.3 Postmodern Mapping 1.4 Subversive Cartography 1.5 The Power in/out Maps 1.6 Post-Representational Cartography 1.7 The Digital and Mapping: TOPOLOGY 2. TOWARDS A THEORY OF MAPPING IN ARCHITECTURE: PRODUCTION, DISCIPLINARITY AND ACTIVATION 2.1 Maps and Mapping(s), as Verb and as Noun 2.2 Trans-disciplinary Projection 2.3 Production (rather than …) 2.4 Mapping as an Index of Past and Future Possibilities 2.5 The Situationist The Naked City Map 2.6 On Activation: Sets of Relationships and Trajectories 2.7 Post-Topological Mapping: PLACE-TIME DISCONTINUITIES PART 2: MAPPING TOWARDS ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCT 3. CHOROGRAPHY AND THE OPERATIONALIZATION OF THE MAP: PLACE, MEASURE AND IDEA 3.1 To Measure is to Implement Difference 3.2 The Song of the Sirens 3.3 Berlin Trajectories 3.4 Being Lost: Exploratory Drift 3.5 CHOROGRAPHY: Differentiating Measures and Ideation 4. AIONOLOGY AND THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF THE MAP: TIME, NOTATION AND FORM 4.1 Mapping Urban Totality 4.2 Investigating the Spatial Conditions of the Contemporary City 4.3 Urban Depictions in Architecture 4.4 Las Vegas and Manhattan; Learning and Trans-scripting 4.5 AIONOLOGY: Generative Notations and Formation 5. HETEROTOPOLOGY AND THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE MAP: IMPLACING, ORDER AND THEORY 5.1 Discursive Reset 5.2 Context 5.3 Order 5.4 Deep and Oligoptic Mapping 5.5 HETERO-TOPOLOGY: Montaged Ordering and Theorization EPILOGUE INDEX COLOPHON
Marc Schoonderbeek is an architect and associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, where he is Program Director of the Borders & Territories research group. He currently acts as Research Nestor for the Department of Architecture at TU Delft. He is an editor of the journals Footprint and Modi Operandi. He lectured at numerous architecture institutes and contributes regularly to architectural magazines and academic journals. Previous publications include Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification; Border Conditions and X Agendas for Architecture.
