[audiobook] Photographers and Research: The role of research in contemporary photographic practice by Shirley Read; Mike Simmons in Arts-Photography

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In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality; This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory; their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture; as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines; thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices.The sections move gradually from the specifics of architectural thought – its history; theory; and criticism – and their ongoing relation with philosophy; to the critical positions formulated through architecture’s specific forms of expression; and onto more recent forms of architecture’s engagement and self-definition. The book’s thematic sessions are concluded by and interspersed with a series of shorter critical position texts; which; together; propose a new vision of the contemporary role of theory in architecture. What emerges; overall; is a critical and productive role for theory in architecture today: theory as a proposition; theory as task and as a ‘risk’ of architecture.