Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary
context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film
making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the
architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how
broad architecture has become, and the extent to which it has
already merged peripheral practices into its core. This new volume
in the AHRA Critiques Series is a statement about how broad,
complex, influential, and, ironically central, architecture has
become in the contemporary culture, economy and society, despite
the marginal position the profession currently occupies.
Peripheries questions and challenges the boundaries of
architectural research by bringing together subjects and relevant
streams of investigation, some of which rarely feature in
architectural research and practice titles. Divided into four
themes, Places of Formation and Insight, Practices at the Edge,
People on the Margins and Edge Readings, each section presents a
selection of high calibre interdisciplinary research papers, from a
range of renowned contributors including Stephen Walker, Gerry
Adler, Dana Vais and author Glen Patterson. The volume also
includes a Dialogue between Murray Fraser, Christine Boyer and Kim
Dovey. Each section interrogates a peripheral aspect of the built
environment, and brings to the fore peripheral case studies.
Chapters discuss architecture in United States, Lebanon, Egypt,
Japan, Romania, and Europe. Hence, the book takes Architectural
humanities discussions to new cultures, societies and practices and
towards a global level of influence and impact.
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