Architecture Is A Social Act
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Author |
: Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne |
Publisher |
: Frame Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2020-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789492311450 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9492311453 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Architecture Is a Social Act by : Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne
Good architecture is no longer about simply designing a building as an isolated object, but about meeting head-on the forces that are shaping today’s world. Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA] addresses how the discipline can be used as a tool to engage in politics, economics, aesthetics, and smart growth by promoting social equity, human interaction, and cultural evolution. The book features 28 projects drawn across LOHA’s nearly 30-year history, a selection that underscores the direct connection between the development of consciously designed buildings and wider efforts to tackle issues that are relevant in a rapidly changing world. LOHA’s projects range from tiny Santa Monica storefronts to vast urban plans in Detroit, Michigan, and Raleigh, North Carolina. From activating main streets, to designing housing of all shapes and sizes, to bringing hope to the homeless, to developing strategic plans for the future growth of cities, all of the work featured is represented within a larger social framework. Each case study is evidence of LOHA’s mastery of scale, form, light, and space that gives people a true sense of place and belonging. Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA] points the way ahead for both people and architecture. Features A collection of 28 projects completed over nearly three decades gives readers thorough insight – both visually and conceptually – into the work of LA and Detroit-based firm Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects. An important contribution in a post-pandemic world, the book’s main goal is to spark creative ideas and important questions about how architecture can be used in political engagement, smart growth and social structures, in order to improve our urban landscapes and elevate the human condition. Texts by O’Herlihy (Foreword), Frances Anderton (Introduction), Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne and Greg Goldin (project narratives and Afterword) are accompanied by illustrations and renderings by LOHA, and photography by Iwan Baan, Lawrence Anderson, Paul Vu, and others. The book is organized chronologically (starting in the 1990s and ending in 2020) and broken up into six sections, each representing a tipping point for the practice – periods in which LOHA’s work was launched in new directions that brought new sets of challenges, all of which parallel significant historical events. Readers will gain insight into the practice’s process when engaging a new project/site; understanding its history and context, and how it is informed by the culture and ecology of the people who live there.
Author |
: Doina Petrescu |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2017-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317509233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317509234 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social (Re)Production of Architecture by : Doina Petrescu
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the ‘right to the city’ into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s’ discussions about the ‘production of space’, which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architecture’s engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of ‘social’ can architecture (re)produce, and what kinds of politics, values and actions are needed. The book features 24 interdisciplinary essays written by leading theorists and practitioners including social thinkers, economic theorists, architects, educators, urban curators, feminists, artists and activists from different generations and global contexts. The essays discuss the diverse, global locations with work taking different and specific forms in these different contexts. A cutting-edge, critical text which rethinks both practice and theory in the light of recent crises, making it key reading for students, academics and practitioners.
Author |
: Lebbeus Woods |
Publisher |
: Academy Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1992-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1854901486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781854901484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anarchitecture by : Lebbeus Woods
Study of Woods' visionary architecture which is concerned with the cultural regeneration of society.
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Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:903489849 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Design as a Social Act by :
Author |
: Azra Akšamija |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2020-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 396680008X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783966800082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism by : Azra Akšamija
Author |
: Tiziana Panizza Kassahun |
Publisher |
: Niggli |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 372120980X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783721209808 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Architecture & Human Rights by : Tiziana Panizza Kassahun
Revealing how architects can use human rights as powerful tools for better, fairer urban planning - to create livable, sustainable cities of the future.
Author |
: Thomas A. Dutton |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 339 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452900803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452900809 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Architecture by : Thomas A. Dutton
Author |
: Blair Kamin |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2011-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226423128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226423123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Terror and Wonder by : Blair Kamin
Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.
Author |
: Jerilou Hammett |
Publisher |
: UNM Press |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2013-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826353863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082635386X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Architecture of Change by : Jerilou Hammett
The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn’t change, who saw the possibility of making something better, and didn’t esitate to act. Breaking down the stereotypes surrounding “socially engaged architecture,” this book shows who can actually impact the lives of communities. Like Bernard Rudofsky’s seminal Architecture Without Architects, it explores communal architecture produced not by specialists but by people, drawing on their common lives and experiences, who have a unique insight into their particular needs and environments. These unsung heroes are teachers and artists, immigrants and activists, grandmothers in the projects, students and planners, architects and residents of some of our poorest places. Running through their stories is a constant theme of social justice as an underlying principle of the built environment. This book is about opening one’s eyes to new ways of interpreting the world, and how to go about changing it.
Author |
: Daniel Grinceri |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2016-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317423959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131742395X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Architecture as Cultural and Political Discourse by : Daniel Grinceri
This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture. It examines how these discursive mechanisms and technologies combine to normalise and aestheticise everyday practices. It queries the means by which buildings are appropriated to give shape and form to political aspirations and values. Architecture is not overtly political. It does not coerce people to behave in certain ways. However, architecture is constructed within the same rules and practices whereby people and communities self-govern and regulate themselves to think and act in certain ways. This book seeks to examine these rules through various case studies including: the reconstructed Notre Dame Cathedral, the Nazi era Munich Konigsplatz, Auschwitz concentration camp and the Prora resort, Sydney’s suburban race riots, and the Australian Immigration Detention Centre on Christmas Island.