Consuming Architecture

On the occupation, appropriation and interpretation of buildings
Herausgeber: Maudlin, Daniel; Vellinga, Marcel

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Produktbeschreibung

Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural discourse, Consuming Architecture examines the variety of ways in which buildings are consumed after they have been produced, focusing in particular on processes of occupation, appropriation and interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780415825009
• ISBN-10: 0415825008
• Artikelnr.: 41360822

Autorenporträt

Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Modern History, Department of History and Art History,　Plymouth University, UK, where he teaches social and material culture approaches to architectural history. He previously taught history and cultural theory to architecture students at Plymouth University's School of Architecture, Design and Environment. He has also taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Pennsylvania and St Andrews. Marcel Vellinga is Reader in Anthropology of Architecture and Director of the Place, Culture and Identity research group in the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. Holding a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands), his teaching and research is concerned with the anthropological study of architecture, vernacular architecture and architectural regeneration. His publications include Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World, with Paul Oliver (Routledge 2007); Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education, and Practice, with Lindsay Asquith (eds.)(Taylor and Francis 2006) and Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village (KITLV Press 2004) and various journal articles. Marcel is a Director of the Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Captions Introduction Part 1: Occupations 1. The
(In)complete Architecture of the Suburban House 2. House Behaviour in the
Australian Suburb: Consumption, Migrants and Their Houses 3. Performing
their Version of the House: Views on an Architectural Response to Autism 4.
Transformation Unwanted! Heritage-making and its Effects in Le Corbusier's
Pessac Estate 5. A Progressive Attachment: Accommodating Growth and Change
in Álvaro Siza's Malagueira Neighbourhood Part 2: Appropriations 6.
Becoming Visible: Transforming the Spaces of Apartheid South Africa 7.
Simla or Shimla: The Indian Political Re-appropriation of Little England 8.
Ideological Regeneration: The Cafesjian Centre for the Arts and the New
Yerevan 9. The Winter of Discount Tents: Occupy London and the Improvised
Dwelling as Protest 10. On the Origins of Hip Hop: Appropriation and
Territorial Control of Urban Space Part 3: Interpretations 11. 'Why does it
never rain in the Architectural Review?' Photography and the Everyday Life
of Buildings 12. Scenarios 'For poetry makes nothing happen': Art and
Architectonic Urban Experimentations 13. Doors Don't Slam: Time-Based
Architectural Representation 14. SE 11 [Re]generations 15. Between the
Cloud and the Chasm: Architectural Journals, Waste Regimes and Economies of
Attention Select Bibliography Index