Disciplinary Promiscuity and its Discontents

Both Architecture and Philosophy tend to appropriate and contaminate fields other thantheir own; philosophers have the capacity to turn everything into a philosophical problem,and architects similarly tend to appropriate issues and frame them as architectural concerns.Running parallel to the tendency of disciplinary exchange is, in actuality, an increasing suspicionof cross-breeding among disciplines, and an almost anxious attitude from those who-perhaps not wrongly- feel threatened by external forces pushing onto their domain. Whilethis apparent promiscuity seems to have been remarkably beneficial on a number of fronts,it also raises many difficult questions about the integrity of each discipline, their standing inhistory, and their current specific engagement in society.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6