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.

Werner Reichmann, University of Konstanz, GermanyAnna-Lisa Müller, University of Bremen, GermanyMarianne Stang Våland, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkSusse Georg, Aalborg University, DenmarkMagdalena ?ukasiuk, University of Warsaw, PolandMarcin Jewdokimow, Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University Warsaw, PolandTheresia Leuenberger, Technical University Berlin, GermanyEndre Dányi, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, GermanyJarmin Christine Yeh, University of California, San Francisco, USARobin Bartram, Northwestern University, USAJeremias Herberg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, GermanyJeffrey Chan, National University of Singapore

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 Våland 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