Title & Author:

Use matters : an alternative history of architecture / edited by Kenny Cupers.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

275 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Subjectivity and knowledge : ISOTYPE and modern architecture in Red Vienna / Eve Blau -- Architectural handbooks and the user experience / Paul Emmons and Andreea Mihalache -- Laboratory modules and the subjectivity of the knowledge worker / William J. Rankin -- Architects, users, and the social sciences in postwar America / Avigail Sachs -- Spatial experience and the instruments of architectural theory / Brian Lonsway -- II. Collectivity, welfare, consumption : The shantytown in Algiers and the colonization of everyday life / Sheila Crane -- New Swedes in the New Town / Jennifer S. Mack -- Henri Lefebvre: for and against the "user" / Łukasz Stanek -- Designed-in safety: ergonomics in the bathroom / Barbara Penner -- Intelligentsia design and the postmodern Plattenbau / Max Hirsh -- WiMBY!'s new collectives / Michelle Provoost -- III. Participation : Landscape and participation in 1960s New York / Mariana Mogilevich -- Ergonomics of democracy / Javier Lezaun -- Counter-projects and the postmodern user / Isabelle Doucet -- The paradox of social architectures / Tatjana Schneider.
Text in English.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780415637329 (hardback)
0415637325 (hardback)
9780415637343 (pbk.)
0415637341 (pbk.)
(ebook)
9781315884141
9781306051309
1306051304

Subject:

Architecture and society History.
Functionalism (Architecture)
Architecture et société Histoire.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture)
functionalism.
ARCHITECTURE General.
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation.
Architecture and society.
Arkitektur och samhälle.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Cupers, Kenny, editor.
Cupers, Kenny editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317818
Call No.: 317818
Status: Available