Architectures of Hiding : Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence (Paperback)

INTRODUCING THE ARCHITECTURES OF HIDING: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence? INTERLUDES, INSIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS Architectures of Hiding: On Displaying the Hidden? PART 1. MODES OF HIDING: VEILED DEVICES BEYOND THE GAZE? INTERLUDE 1 Verdures: Mimicry and Camouflage? 1. Camouflage after the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes? 2. Walls and Hidden Forms of Walling: The production of spatial violence in Beirut? 3. Hiding, Veiling and Transversing: Nubian Madyafa Post-Displacement? 4. From Concealed Caves to dis(cover)ed Bunkers: Gaetano Pesce’s Pre/post Historical Atomic Shelter? 5. Concealed behind Transparencies: A Closer Look at Architecture’s Hidden Performativity through the Barcelona Pavilion? 6. Happy Schools: The visible and invisible in the Sven Lokrantz School and the Architecture of Special Education? INTERLUDE 2 Deformative, Yet Silent? PART 2. MOTIVES OF HIDING: DISGUISED NARRATIVES? INTERLUDE 3 Avert? 7. Hiding in Plain Sight: The White House Solarium and the Projection of History? 8. Urban Alibis and its Terms of Concealment: Cases from Shanghai? 9. Hiding Behind Colonial Roots: Investigating the Reconstruction of the Palestinian Presidential Headquarters (the Muqata’a) in Ramallah? 10. [Hidden Architecture]: The Paracontextual in Superstudio’s Project of Instrumentalizable Muteness? 11. Architects’ Hidden Building Signatures? 12. Clutter, Tidying and Architectural Desires? INTERLUDE 4 Hidden Relics??PART 3. CONCEALED APPARATUS: LATENCIES AND POTENTIALITIES IN MATERIAL REALITIES? INTERLUDE 5 Yellow + Blue: An Apparatus for Fabricating Illusionary Architecture? 13. Hiding in the Wings: A Culture of the Onlooker in Eighteenth Century France? 14. Principles of Masking: Wall Paintings by Thomas Schutte and Ludger Gerdes, circa 1977? 15. Concealment, Costume and Modern Architecture? 16. Architecture, Infrastructure and Occlusion in Miami: The Network Access Point of the Americas? 17. Drawn Lines Conceal Multitudes: The Hidden Traces of Time in Carlo Scarpa’s Drawn Factures for the Brion Memorial? 18. Impossible Gag: Clues to a hidden reality in Winsor McCay’s and Buster Keaton’s representations of dreams? INTERLUDE 6 A New Approach to Hidden History: The Reconstruction of History through Nodal Spaces in the Ghost City of Lifta? CODA The Architecture of Hiddenness: Latency and Virtuality in the Topology of Concealment