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Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dissent within the architectural field. It expands the notion of dissidence to other similar practices and strategies of resistance, in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.The book also discusses how the gestures and techniques of past struggles, as well as 'dilemmas' of working in politically suppressive regimes, can help to inform those of today.

This collection of essays from expert scholars demonstrates the multiple responses to this subject, the potential and dangers of dissidence, and thus constructs a robust lexicon of concepts that will point to possible ways forward for politically and theoretically committed architects and practitioners.

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• Illustration credits(p. vii)
• Contributors(p. x)
• Acknowledgements(p. xv)
• Introduction: architecture and the paradox of dissidence(p. 1)
• Part I Dissidence through architecture(p. 17)
• The turning point in 1978: architects of the Tallinn School and their late socialist public(p. 19)
• Bogdan Bogdanovic: dissident in life, architecture and writing(p. 33)
• A difficult person for socialism: Elemér Zalotay and his strip building(p. 45)
• Part II Pedagogy as site of dissent(p. 59)
• Playing in the time of normalisation: SIAL's ¿kolka experiment and architectural dissidence(p. 61)
• Designing dissent: Vilanova Artigas and the São Paulo School of Architecture(p. 74)
• Radical remoteness: the HfG Ulm as institution of dissidence(p. 89)
• Interview with Senan Abdelqader(p. 103)
• Part III Possible geographies of architecture: between dissidence and activism(p. 115)
• Antigone's dissident dustings: coatings, revolutions and the circularity of dust(p. 117)
• Gestures of refusal in the margins of New Babylon(p. 128)
• Translocal transmedia citizenship(p. 141)
• Mapping the sea: thalassopolitics and disobedient spatial practices(p. 151)
• Part IV Dissident ecologies(p. 163)
• Weather dissidents: from natura naturans to 'space' and back again(p. 165)
• Dissident water: the political life of rising acid mine water(p. 180)
• Earthly poison: arsenic in the Bengal delta(p. 194)
• The third degree: interrogating the scale of climate conflict(p. 206)
• Index(p. 219)

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Ines Weizman is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and a Junior Professor of Architectural Theory at the Bauhaus University Weimar.