Main entry:

Gissen, David, author.

Title & Author:

The architecture of disability : buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access / David Gissen.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

xviii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From Accessible Design to an Architecture of Disability -- Impaired Monuments: Architecture, History, and the Preservation of Disability -- Of a Weaker Nature: Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity -- The Urbanization of Disability -- A Form of Impairment: Empathy and Disfigurement in Architectural Aesthetics -- Disabling Environments: Human Physiology and Its Architectural Conditions -- The Construction of Disability: Another Architectural Theory of Tectonics -- Coda: The Practice of Disability.

Summary:

"By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, this book presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture"-- Provided by publisher.
"A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment. Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for 'the construction of disability,' this book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world. Stressing the connection between architectural form and the capacities of the human body, David Gissen demonstrates how disability haunts the history and practice of architecture. Examining various historic sites, landscape designs, and urban spaces, he deconstructs the prevailing functionalist approach to accommodating disabled people in architecture and instead asserts that physical capacity is essential to the conception of all designed space. By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, The Architecture of Disability presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can offer us the means to positively reimagine the roots of architecture." -- description from publisher's website. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912505/the-architecture-of-disability/

ISBN:

9781517912505 paperback
1517912504 paperback
9781517912499 hardcover
1517912490 hardcover
electronic book
9781452968544
9781452968551

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Disabilities Philosophy.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Philosophie.
Handicap Philosophie.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316979
Call No.: 316979
Copy: 1
Status: Available