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ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW BOOK REVIEW Review of Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change,by Nick Axel, Daniel A. Barber, Nikolaus Hirsch and Anton Vidokle, eds. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, e-flux Architecture, 2022, 272 pp, ISBN 978-1-5179- 1151-5 Accumulation has become a precarious catalyst of eco- logical catastrophe. The editors of the eponymous volume and the twenty-two collected contributions from a range of disciplines, querying the art, architecture, and media of climate change, make this abundantly clear. In an era of critical resource depletion, glacial decline, and forced human displacement, exacerbated by the anthropogenic accumulation of capital (financial, natural, cultural, social, and built), the concept otherwise delineating processual growth increasingly predicts cataclysmic loss. This “precarity-entanglement thinking” (194), as human geog- rapher Stephanie Wakefield, one of the contributors to the volume, describes it, draws readers of Accumulation in through a hypnotic focus on uncertainty. This uncer- tainty—about sustainable futures as much as current ways of living—encompasses a spectrum of emotions from raw fear to restrained optimism in the face of the climate emergency. The climate, readers are told, is essentially implicated in architecture. Since long before Vitruvius stipulated the necessity to conceive “healthy” dwellings by adapting building tech-
Architectural Theory Review – Taylor & Francis
Published: Jan 2, 2023
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