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Architecture and Participation (Hardcover)
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Architecture and Participation (Hardcover)
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A participative approach to architecture challenges many of the
normative values of traditional architecture and, in particular,
issues of authorship, control, aesthetics and the role of the user.
The book explores how a participative approach may lead to new
spatial conditions, as well as to new types of architectural
practices and investigates the way that the user has been included
in the design process. Where many architectural books concentrate
on formal or aesthetic issues, this book explicitly opens up the
social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way
that the eventual users may shape it. As government policies
throughout the world call for more involvement by people in the
making of their environment, the issue of participation has become
of central concern to architects, clients, funders, users and
government officers. However, participation often remains as a
token gesture; this book promises to make a major contribution to
the field by arguing for a more considered approach to
architectural participation. Architecture and Participation brings
together leading international practitioners and theorists in the
field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of p
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