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When Architecture Meets Activism

Author : Roger Guy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498512429
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book When Architecture Meets Activism written by Roger Guy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban poor. However, during the 1960s, New Left planners and architects began working with marginalized groups in cities to design alternatives to urban renewal projects. This was part of a national advocacy planning movement that was taking shape in urban areas like Chicago. Inspired by critics of the Rational-comprehensive model of planning, advocacy planners opposed the imposition of projects on neighborhoods often with no collaboration from residents. One example of this resistance was Hank Williams Village—a multi-purpose housing and commercial redevelopment project modeled after a southern town. The Village was an attempt to prevent the displacement of thousands of southern whites by the planned construction of a community college in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. While the plan for the Village failed to win support of the local urban renewal board, the work performed by the young VISTA architects became instrumental in their subsequent career trajectories and thus served as formative personal and professional experience.

Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism

Author : Ann Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1849713561
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism written by Ann Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by recent research into the viability of a 'steady state' economy, this book sets an agenda for addressing the designer's paradox of sustainable consumption.

Activist Architecture

Author : Dan Pitera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990459545
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Activist Architecture written by Dan Pitera and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activist Architecture is an edited volume bringing together some of the most creative minds working in the world of community design and socially engaged practice. It asserts that community design centers and other socially engaged practices expand the influence built environmental professions have on culture and society. These practices work under the premise that designers should expand their clientele, where they work, and the types of projects they engage. This does not mean that design centers exclude people who typically build or hire an architect, urban designer, landscape architect, or planner. Design centers include more people, more programs, and more geographies in the process. They are advocates for people who are typically left out of design and place-making decisions. Design centers widen the undertaking beyond some people to include all (or more) people. While looking back over the past 50+ years, Activist Architecture positions the philosophy and practice of community design centers for today and tomorrow. The editors of Activist Architecture put together both a "why-to" and "how-to" guide for establishing and operating a community design center.

Activist Architecture

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814984010
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Activist Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Activism at Home

Author : Isabelle Doucet
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868596335
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Activism at Home written by Isabelle Doucet and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects' own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, Activism at Home is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline's tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus--whether at home or elsewhere.

Design Activism

Author : Alastair Fuad-Luke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136568476
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Design Activism written by Alastair Fuad-Luke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism. Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.

Expanding Architecture

Author : Bryan Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933045788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Architecture written by Bryan Bell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning how design can improve daily lives, more than thirty essays by practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects and environmental designers illuminate an emerging geography of architectural activism and suggest the many ways that design can address issues of social justice.

Architecture Speaks!

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789526083414
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Speaks! written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first 'Architecture Speaks!' Lecture took place in January 2016. The series, initiated by Associate Professor Jenni Reuter, has been hosted jointly by the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Aalto University.0The present publication is a collation of reportages on the first 14 lectures. In their reportages, the student authors write about how the architects inspire them to reflect on their own ambitions, fears and expectations for the future of architecture and the profession. 0The invited speakers have been divided into three groups: Activists, Symbolists and Time Curators.

Activism in Architecture

Author : Margot McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351726420
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Activism in Architecture written by Margot McDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009), and the environmental awareness events that took hold in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, the book assembles essays which closely examine Hay's contribution to architecture and the work of those who directly and tangentially were affected by it. The book also offers insights into the role of passive energy design today. Appealing to researchers, architects and students interested in architecture and design technology, Activism in Architecture explores the role of passive environmental inventions as an active agent in shaping socio-political debates.

Emerging Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism

Author : David Leite Viana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527552616
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism written by David Leite Viana and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a set of essays on the teaching of Architecture and Urbanism, written by university professors and researchers from several countries. It argues that the teaching of architecture and urbanism is in a state of crisis; architecture seems unable to respond to current problems, and urbanism seems incapable of fulfilling the needs of a more balanced society and its built environment, including the human right to housing. The book comprises historical analyses, systematization of concepts, manifestos, and social evaluations, and, above all, an alignment of new objectives, curricular plans, and pedagogical methodologies.

The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice

Author : Mitra Kanaani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317688740
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice written by Mitra Kanaani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice provides an overview of established and emerging trends in architecture practice. Contributions of the latest research from international experts examine external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture. Each chapter contains up-to-date and relevant information about select aspects of architecture, and the changes this information will have on the future of the profession. The Companion contains thirty-five chapters, divided into seven parts: Theoretical Stances, Technology, Sustainability, Behavorism, Urbanism, Professional Practice and Society. Topics include: Evidence-Based Design, Performativity, Designing for Net Zero Energy, The Substance of Light in Design, Social Equity and Ethics for Sustainable Architecture, Universal Design, Design Psychology, Architecture, Branding and the Politics of Identity, The Role of BIM in Green Architecture, Public Health and the Design Process, Affordable Housing, Disaster Preparation and Mitigation, Diversity and many more. Each chapter follows the running theme of examining external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture in order to uncover the evolving theoretical tenets of what constitutes today’s architectural profession, and the tools that will be required of the future architect. This book considers architecture’s interdisciplinary nature, and addresses its current and evolving perspectives related to social, economic, environmental, technological, and globalization trends. These challenges are central to the future direction of architecture and as such this Companion will serve as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, existing practitioners and future architects.

The Interior Architecture Theory Reader

Author : Gregory Marinic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317434994
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Interior Architecture Theory Reader written by Gregory Marinic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interior Architecture Theory Reader presents a global compilation that collectively and specifically defines interior architecture. Diverse views and comparative resources for interior architecture students, educators, scholars, and practitioners are needed to develop a proper canon for this young discipline. As a theoretical survey of interior architecture, the book examines theory, history, and production to embrace a full range of interior identities in architecture, interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. Authored by leading educators, theorists, and practitioners, fifty chapters refine and expand the discourse surrounding interior architecture.

Design (&) Activism

Author : Tom Bieling
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869772918
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Design (&) Activism written by Tom Bieling and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2019-12-05T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about how the worlds of design and activism (could) inspire each other. As Design and its conceptual, functional, aesthetic, speculative and interventional concepts inevitably affect our lives, it often actively interferes in common defi nitions, understandings and opinion making, which offers opportunities for ideological engagement (in a good or in a bad sense). The book focuses on theories and practices related to the role of Design in terms of addressing, provoking and creating political discourse. Starting from traditional forms of protest, visual languages of resistance, to new forms of digital participation, this will help us to better understand the rituals, structures and meanings of design activism in history and the present, clarifying that design is intrinsically social and supremely political. And it shall help us to derive arguments and examples for the transformative potential of future design (and) activism.

Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

Author : Ann Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136315683
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Architecture & Design versus Consumerism written by Ann Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as engines for consumerism and growth, increasing numbers of designers are concerned about the problems resulting from growth. But designers face a paradox of their own; in scenarios of sustainable consumption, where people consume or build significantly less, what will be left for designers to do? This book, informed by recent research into the viability of a "steady state" economy, sets an agenda for addressing the designer’s paradox of sustainable consumption. The agenda includes ways that architecture and design can help transition us towards a new kind of economy that prioritizes real wellbeing rather than economic growth. Packed with examples and illustrations, the book argues that taking action, or activism, is an important but so far underexplored way for architects and designers to confront consumerism. The first chapters explore how economic growth and consumerism shape and are shaped by the professions of architecture, product, and landscape design and how we can understand the problem of consumerism as four main challenges that designers are already addressing. The book maps out the main issues surrounding the development of metrics that designers and others can use to measure wellbeing, instead of simply measuring economic growth. The second half of the book looks at how design activism works and its connection to growth and consumerist issues. These chapters examine how activist practices are financed, highlight five specific methods that designers use in working for social change, and investigate the power of these methods. The book concludes with a consideration of what design’s role might be in a "post-growth" society.

The Architecture Chronicle

Author : Jan Kattein
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409451860
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture Chronicle written by Jan Kattein and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 30 years, technological, social, economic and environmental changes have brought about the most dramatic evolution to architectural practice that has taken place since the profession emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Whilst these changes have transformed the way architects work, few contemporary books discuss architectural practice. The Architecture Chronicle sets out to define the role of the contemporary architect in the light of these changes. It also engages with the design and production process and investigates how design decisions are being made and by whom they are executed.

Ethics in Design and Communication

Author : Laura Scherling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350077038
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Design and Communication written by Laura Scherling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design. Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on which the global systems of inequity currently balance precariously. But designers face the additional dilemma that their paid work is often entangled with promoting the same systems such critical approaches seek to redress: how to reconcile this contradiction, among others, in seeking to chart an ethical course of action while still functioning effectively in the world. Ethics in Design and Communication acknowledges the complexity of this subject matter, while also demonstrating that in the ongoing struggle towards an equitable and sustainable world, the talents of design and critical thought are essential. Featured case studies include graphic design internships today, the dark web, and media coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. The fact that within this book such a wide array of practitioners, scholars, critics, and professionals commit to addressing current injustices is already a positive sign. Nonetheless, it is essential that we guard against confusing the coercive force of moral imperatives with ethical deliberation when conceiving a foundation for action.

Forensic Architecture

Author : Eyal Weizman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1935408178
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Forensic Architecture written by Eyal Weizman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group’s founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed. Included in this volume are case studies that traverse multiple scales and durations, ranging from the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere. Weizman’s Forensic Architecture, stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images, and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. Their practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy.