Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture write by Nishat Awan. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing.
Spatial Practices
Spatial Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spatial Practices write by Melanie Dodd. This book was released on 2019-11-07. Spatial Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores ‘spatial practices’, a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the field of spatial practices allows people to reconnect with their own sense of agency through engagement in space and place, exploring and prototyping alternative futures in the here and now. The 24 chapters contain essays, visual essays and interviews, featuring contributions from an international set of experimental practitioners including Jeanne van Heeswijk (Netherlands), Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, San Diego), Hector (USA), The Decorators (London) and OOZE (Netherlands). Beautifully designed with full colour illustrations, Spatial Practices advances dialogue and collaboration between academics and practitioners and is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals in architecture, urban planning and urban policy.
Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise
Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise write by Nishat Awan. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic subject and their consequent reterritorialisation of space are developed as modes of thinking and doing. In parallel, mapping otherwise is proposed as a tool for spatial practitioners to work with these multi-layered spaces. The book is aimed at spatial practitioners and theorists of all sorts - architects, artists, geographers, urban designers - anyone with a general interest in mapping or those interested in working through issues related to migration and the contemporary city.
Architecture Depends
Architecture Depends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture Depends write by Jeremy Till. This book was released on 2009. Architecture Depends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection.
Flexible Housing
Flexible Housing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flexible Housing write by Jeremy Till. This book was released on 2016-09-19. Flexible Housing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge. Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illustrations and diagrams provide fascinating detail and allow direct visual comparisons to be made. Combining history, theory and design the book explains the social and economic benefits that can be achieved and shows the various ways it has been and can be delivered. The book ends with an accessible guide to how flexible housing might be designed and constructed today to achieve adaptable and ultimately sustainable buildings. Housing designers, housing managers and students of architecture, construction and housing will find this book of immense value both as a comprehensive reference and design manual.
