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Architecture, Festival and the City (Paperback)
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Architecture, Festival and the City (Paperback)
Series: Critiques
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Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming
shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether
religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible
expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion,
often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban
landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this
process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations
through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the
construction of temporary buildings, the 'dressing' of existing
urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the
construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part
of the background fabric of the city. This book examines how
festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between
city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time,
or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern
urban condition. Architecture, Festival and the City looks at the
multilayered nature of a diverse selection of festivals and the way
they incorporate both orderly (authoritative) and disorderly
(subversive) components. The aim is to reveal how the civic nature
of urban space is utilised through festival to represent ideas of
belonging and identity. Recent political and social gatherings also
raise questions about the relationship of these events to 'ritual'
and whether traditional practices can serve as meaningful
references in the twenty-first century.
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