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.

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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 Vistas