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Use Matters An Alternative History of Architecture

Cupers Kenny
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780415637343
Publisert
2013-09-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
530 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

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Cupers Kenny

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

Use Matters An Alternative History of Architecture

Cupers Kenny
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
Cupers Kenny
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
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<p><strong>"<em>Use Matters</em> critically interrogates the engagement of "user" in architectural design. It puts the user/occupant/inhabitant as the core of the value premise."</strong> - <em>Leonard Bachman, Journal of Architectural Education, University of Houston</em></p>

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways.
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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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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
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<p><strong>"<em>Use Matters</em> critically interrogates the engagement of "user" in architectural design. It puts the user/occupant/inhabitant as the core of the value premise."</strong> - <em>Leonard Bachman, Journal of Architectural Education, University of Houston</em></p>

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415637343
Publisert
2013-09-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
530 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

Redaktør
Cupers Kenny

Om bidragsyterne

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

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