Title & Author:

The politics of making / edited by Mark Swenarton, Igea Troiani and Helena Webster.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

xiii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Series:

Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ; v. 3

Notes:
Papers from "The Politics of Making," the third international Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 17-18 November 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Mark Swenarton -- Politics of Cities -- 1. The freedom of the city / David Harvey -- 2. The politics of the West Bank Wall: symbolic violence and spaciocide / Brigitte Piquard -- 3. Politics and housing in 1950s French Algiers / Kahina Amal Djiar -- 4. A space of the state: Beijing 1949-59 / Jianfei Zhu -- 5. Representing the state: symbolism and ideology in Doxiadis's plan of Islamabad / Ahmed Zaib K. Mahsud -- 6. The pleasures of driving: experiencing cities from the automobile / Iain Borden -- 7. Campagna Romana: the formation of the Oltrecittà / Lorenzo Romito.
Politics of Makers -- 8. Architectural theory in the service of the crown: the foundation of the Académie royale d'architecture / Anthony Gerbino -- 9. The flute and the house: doing the architecture of making / Leonidas Koutsoumpos -- 10. Ethical dilemmas and difficult collaborations: an architect's view inside an award-winning but troubling project / Jason Alread -- 11. Unsettling design: working between cultures in remote Western Australia / Fiona Harrisson -- 12. The Beehive: a difficult collaboration / Robin Skinner -- 13. Edited by Alison Smithson: the censored history of the 'Team 10 family' / Igea Troiani -- 14. Towards a new understanding of architecture of addition: the unrealised extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art / Albena Yaneva.
Politics of seeing -- 15. Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice / Stephen Kite -- 16. Ambiguous objects: modernism, brutalism and the politics of the picturesque / Jonathan Hill -- 17. Souvenirs of the architectural tourst: Ahmedabad framed / Jane McAllister and Ben Stringer -- 18. Auschwitz State Museum: collective memory and the contested landscape / Helena Webster -- 19. Displacing topographies: making and reading Istanbul guidebooks / Aslihan Senel -- 20. Down and out in London: photography and the politics of representing life in the Elephant, 1948-2005 / Ben Campkin -- 21. The early American maps of Iowa and their politics / Marwan Ghandour -- 22. Making by stealing: the politics of Helen Chadwick's "creative and manipulative theft" / Stephen Walker -- 23. The art of the plausible: some characteristics of architectural design / Tony Fretton.

Summary:

'The Politics of Making' is a collection of contemporary writings exploring the making of cities, buildings, landscapes and the written, drawn and film representations of such activities.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780415431019 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415431018 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society Congresses.
Architecture Political aspects Congresses.
City planning Political aspects Congresses.
Architecture et société Congrès.
Architecture Aspect politique Congrès.
Urbanisme Aspect politique Congrès.
Architecture and society
Architecture Political aspects
City planning Political aspects
Architektur
Einflussnahme
Politische Entscheidung
Städtebau
Oxford
Politics

Form/genre:

Kongress Oxford 2006.
Kongress Oxford.
Conference papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Swenarton, Mark.
Troiani, Igea.
Webster, Helena.
Architectural Humanities Research Association.
Critiques (Architectural Humanities Research Association) ; v. 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280191
Call No.: BIB 216701
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available