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Expanding Architecture - Design as Activism (Paperback)
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"Expanding Architecture" presents a new generation of creative
design carried out in the service of the greater public and the
greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives,
editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of
architectural activism--or "public-interest architecture"--that
might function akin to public-interest law or medicine by expanding
architecture's all too often elite client base. With 30 essays by
practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners,
historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and
members of other fields, this volume presents recent work from
around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can
address issues of social justice, allow individuals and communities
to plan and improve their own lives and serve a much larger
percentage of the population than it has in the past. This new
inclusionary practice must define new services and new processes,
and these are illuminated in the generously illustrated texts as
well.
Building on the momentum of Bell's "Good Deeds, Good Design" and
other recent landmark publications such as "Rural Studio" and
"Design Like You Give a Damn, Expanding Architecture" examines
evolving notions of socially conscious practice and serves as a
guide for designers who are willing to take on the social, economic
and environmental challenges we face today.
Bryan Bell is the Executive Director of the Raleigh, North
Carolina-based Design Corps, which he founded in 1991 to provide
community service through architecture. His other initiatives
include the Design Corps Fellowship program, the Design Corps
Summer Studio and the Structures for Inclusion annual conference.
In 2007 he received a National Honor Award from the American
Institute of Architects.
Katie Wakeford received her M.Arch from North Carolina State
University School of Architecture, where she became interested in
community design. She began working with Design Corps in 2002, and
currently serves as an intern architect with the North Carolina
State College of Design's Home Environments Design Initiative, a
research and community outreach endeavor focused on affordable and
sustainable housing.
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