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Architecture and participation

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This book questions whether a participative approach to architecture may lead to new spatial conditions as well as to new types of architectural practices.

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Architecture depends

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Architecture depends — on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves : a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.

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Ça dépend : essai sur les contigences de l'architecture

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De quoi dépend l'architecture ? Des gens, de l'époque, de la politique, de l'économie, de l'éthique, du désordre... Bref, du réel dans son imprévisible complexité et son irréductible incertitude. Jeremy Till invite les architectes à prendre davantage en considération ces contingences, qui excèdent leur sphère de contrôle mais finissent toujours par s'imposer à leurs oeuvres. Avec rigueur et ironie, l'auteur déconstruit pas à pas l'autonomie que les architectes confèrent à leur discipline et qui les maintient dans une vision pure et idéale des objets qu'ils conçoivent. Les circonstances contrarient pourtant les plans les mieux tracés, à tout moment du processus, de la conception jusqu'à la construction et à l'utilisation d'un bâtiment. Le « Less is more » de Mies fait invariablement place au « Mess is the law » de Till.

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Spatial agency: other ways of doing architecture

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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future.

Titre:
Architecture depends

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Architecture depends - on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans - at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.

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Flexible housing

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Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge. Flexible Housing examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples.