Use Matters (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
280
Utgivningsdatum
2013-09-16
Upplaga
New
Förlag
Routledge
Medarbetare
Cupers, Kenny (ed.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 118 Halftones 32 Line drawings black and white
Illustrationer
32 Line drawings, black and white; 118 Halftones, black and white
Dimensioner
247 x 175 x 20 mm
Vikt
461 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780415637343

Use Matters

An Alternative History of Architecture

av Kenny Cupers
Häftad,  Engelska, 2013-09-16
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From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace peoples 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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"Use Matters critically interrogates the engagement of "user" in architectural design. It puts the user/occupant/inhabitant as the core of the value premise." - Leonard Bachman, Journal of Architectural Education, University of Houston

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

Innehållsförteckning

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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