Stephen Cairns (ed.)

Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy

Herausgeber: Cairns, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place.

Produktdetails

• Architext
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 246mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780415283618
• ISBN-10: 0415283612
• Artikelnr.: 22309519

Autorenporträt

Stephen Cairns teaches architecture theory and design at the University of Edinburgh. He works on contemporary architecture and urbanism often in the context of postcolonial criticism, cross-cultural and transnational studies, and with a particular empirical focus on Southeast Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  Introduction  1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy  2. On
Cosmopolitanism  3. Architecture as Evidence  4. Mythforms: Techniques of
Migrant Place-Making  5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There  6.
Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination  7. Building Hong Kong:
from Migrancy to Disappearance  8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and
Democracy in Canada  9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in
the Chinese Diaspora  10. Emigration / Immigration: Maps, Myths and
Origins  11. Earthquake Weather  12. Pacific Migration  13. La Frontera's
Siamese Twins  14. Screening Los Angeles: Architecture, Mobility and
Migrancy  15. By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diaspora
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