The Politics of Making (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Swenarton, Mark; Webster, Helena; Troiani, Igea

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134709380
• Artikelnr.: 40186353

Autorenporträt

Mark Swenarton is Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Igea Troiani is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Helena Webster is Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Politics of Cities 1. The Freedom of the City 2. The
Politics of the West Bank Wall: Symbolic Violence and Spaciocide 3.
Politics and Housing in 1950s French Algiers 4. A Space of the State:
Beijing 1949-59 5. Representing the State: Symbolism and Ideology in
Doxiadis's Plan of Islamabad 6. The Pleasures of Driving: Experiencing
Cities from the Automobile 7. Campagna Romana: The Formation of the
Oltrecittà Part 2: Politics of Makers 8. Architectural Theory in the
Service of the Crown: The Foundation of the Académie Royale D'Architecture
9. The Flute and the House: Doing the Architecture of Making 10. Ethical
Dilemmas and Difficult Collaborations: An Architect's View Inside an
Award-Winning but Troubling Project 11. Unsettling Design: Working Between
Cultures in Remote Western Australia 12. The Beehive: A Difficult
Collaboration 13. Edited by Alison Smithson: The Censored History of the
'Team 10 Family' 14. Towards a New Understanding of Architecture of
Addition: The Unrealised Extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art Part
3: Politics of Seeing 15. Watching Palaces: Ruskin and the Representation
of Venice 16. Ambiguous Objects: Modernism, Brutalism and the Politics of
the Picturesque 17. Souvenirs of the Architectural Tourist: Ahmedabad
Framed 18. Auschwitz State Museum: Collective Memory and the Contested
Landscape 19. Displacing Topographies: Making and Reading Istanbul
Guidebooks 20. Down and Out in London: Photography and the Politics of
Representing Life in the Elephant, 1948-2005 21. The Early American Maps of
Iowa and their Politics 22. Making by Stealing: the Politics of Helen
Chadwick's 'Creative and Manipulative Theft' 23. The Art of the Plausible:
Some Characteristics of Architectural Design