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Reconfiguring Architectural Agency, Peter Olshavsky
Reconfiguring Architectural Agency, Peter Olshavsky
Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity
This essay, for the exhibition "Steven Holl: Making Architecture,” argues that matter, things, and technologies are increasingly seen as co-constitutive of human agency. Studying this expanded conception of agency in the architecture of Holl reveals three opportunities. It enables us to re-describe the architect’s relation to architectural phenomenology beyond materiality. It reveals architecture’s active comportment in socially embedded settings, and it advances the idea that architecture makes us what we are.