Architecture and Field/Work

Suzanne Ewing is an architect and academic who teaches architectural design at the University of Edinburgh. She is a partner at zone architects and contributes to public discourse on design in the UK and Europe through workshops, exhibitions and publications. Jérémie Michael McGowan is an artist, designer and academic who has taught and exhibited in the UK, United States and Finland.Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces at Edinburgh College of Art.Victoria Clare Bernie is an artist and academic who teaches architecture at the University of Edinburgh.

• Architecture and Field/Work Introduction Part 1: Field/Work Practice Introduction 1. Collaborative Practices: Hybrid Ethnographies and Fieldwork Approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India 2. The Erotics of Fieldwork in 'Learning from Las Vegas' 3. Inside the Cave, Outside the Discipline 4. Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle’s Early Forays to the Field Field Note 1 Part 2: Field/Work and Site Introduction 5. Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex 6. Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment: William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1971-1975 7. Vietnamese Field /work: the Case of Hanoi’s Water Urbanism 8. Open Field: Documentary Game 9. The Critical Where of the Field: a Reflection on Fieldwork as a Situated Process of Creative Research Field Note 2 Part 3: Field/WorkTechniques Introduction 10. Drawing Sites: Site Drawings 11. Field Diaries 12. Contested Fields: Perfection and Compromise at Caruso St John’s Museum of Childhood 13. Editing the Field: Video Tales from Globalised Cityscapes 14. Blighted Field Note 3 Afterword Jane Rendell