CARTHA – Building Identity A Handbook for Architectural Design (Hardback Book)
Explores the role of architecture in forming identity in society through interviews with renowned scholars and a set of projects by international firms especially designed for this book. In their new book, the international CARTHA network engages with the question of forming identity in society and the role that architecture plays in this process. Inspired by Jacques Lacans psychoanalytical approach, CARTHAs members break down identity formation into four processes, which they explore in interviews. Maarten Delbeke, professor of history and theory of architecture at ETH Zurich, talks about assimilation, while Frederike Lausch, a researcher at TU Darmstadts Department of Architecture, discusses appropriation. Rob Krier, a Berlin- and Liguria-based architect and sculptor examines denial,.
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