Use Matters

An Alternative History of Architecture
Herausgeber: Cupers, Kenny

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together promising young authors, prominent scholars, and cutting edge practitioners, Use Matters explores how the user has been a critical source of invention over the past century, prompting us to reconfigure the processes and premises of design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780415637343
• ISBN-10: 0415637341
• Artikelnr.: 38491237

Autorenporträt

Kenny Cupers is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Subjectivity and Knowledge 1. Isotype and Modern
Architecture in Red Vienna 2. Architectural Handbooks and the User
Experience 3. Laboratory Modules and the Subjectivity of the Knowledge
Worker 4. Architects, Users, and the Social Sciences in Postwar America 5.
Spatial Experience and the Instruments of Architectural Theory Part 2:
Collectivity, Welfare, Consumption 6. The Shantytown of Algiers and the
Colonization of Everyday Life 7. New Swedes in the New Town 8. Henri
Lefebvre, For and Against the "User" 9. Designed-in Safety: Ergonomics in
the Bathroom 10. Intelligentsia Design and the Postmodern Plattenbau 11.
WiMBY!'s New Collectives Part 3: Participation 12. Landscape and
Participation in 1960s New York 13. Ergonomics of Democracy 14.
Counter-projects and the Postmodern User 15. The paradox of Social
Architectures