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This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture and thus materiality as a whole has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency.

Architecture, Materiality and Society: Connecting Sociology of Architecture with Science and Technology Studies

1. The Secrets of Architecture's Actions; Werner Reichmann and Anna-Lisa Müller 2. Designing a Counter: The Constitutive Entanglement of the Social and the Material in Architectural Design; Marianne Stang Valand and Susse Georg 3. The Mutual Influence of the Architecture and the Social in a Non-home; Magdalena ?ukasiuk and Marcin Jewdokimow 4. The Emergence of Architecture-Transformations. An Examination of Architecture Experiences from the Perspective of the Sociology of Space and the Actor-Network-Theory; Theresia Leuenberger 5. The Parliament as a High-Political Programme; Endre Dányi 6. The Lure of Restoration: Transforming Buildings and Bodies for Ever-Longer Life; Jarmin Christine Yeh 7. Infrastructures of Epistemic Moments: Buildings, Black Boxes, Improvement and Neighbourhood Change; Robin Bartram 8. Putting Architecture in its Social Space: The Fields and Skills of Planning Maastricht; Jeremias Herberg 9. Moral Agency in Architecture? The Dialectics of Spatializing Morality and Moralizing Spaces; Jeffrey Chan 10. The Actions of Architecture. Constituting a New Sociology of Architecture; Anna-Lisa Müller and Werner Reichmann