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This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future. eBook available with sample pages: 0203449126
The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most
stimulating components of an architectural course. This classic
text provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to
do it, and what the major pitfalls are. This is a comprehensive
guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about
undertaking the dissertation. The book provides a plain guide
through the whole process of starting, writing, preparing and
submitting a dissertation with minimum stress and frustration. The
third edition has been revised throughout to bring the text
completely up-to-date for a new generation of students. Crucially,
five new and complete dissertations demonstrate and exemplify all
the advice and issues raised in the main text. These dissertations
are on subjects from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia and offer
remarkable insights into how to get it just right.
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this impact on Architecture, providing sixteen essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. An extended essay by the editors gives an in-depth introduction to the subject. Essays range from psychoanalysis and interiors; colonialism and modern urbanism; gender and the renaissance; to heteroptopia and Las Vegas. Contributors come from Europe and the USA, and include Iain Borden, Zeynep Celik, Sarah Chaplin, Beatriz Colomina, Darell Fields, Murray Fraser, Diane Ghirado, Joe Kerr, Clive Knights, Neil Leach, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Katherine Shonfield, Helen Thomas, Jeremy Till, Henry Urbach and Sarah Wigglesworth.
This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.
Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative,
physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of
contradictions - a billion-dollar global industry which still
retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the
City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the
story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to
the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a
life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian,
and packed through with full-colour images - of skaters, boards,
moves, graphics, and film-stills - this passionate, readable and
rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding
and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through
their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique
way.
Contents: Introduction Section 1: What is a City? Section 2: What is Culture? Section 3: Symbolic Economies and New Urban Spaces Section 4: The Culture Industry Section 5: Culture and Technologies Section 6: Everyday Lives Section 7: Contesting Identity Section 8: Boundaries and Transgressions Section 9: Utopias and Dystopias Section 10: Possible Futures
Contents: Introduction Section 1: What is a City? Section 2: What is Culture? Section 3: Symbolic Economies and New Urban Spaces Section 4: The Culture Industry Section 5: Culture and Technologies Section 6: Everyday Lives Section 7: Contesting Identity Section 8: Boundaries and Transgressions Section 9: Utopias and Dystopias Section 10: Possible Futures
The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most
stimulating components of an architectural course. This classic
text provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to
do it, and what the major pitfalls are. This is a comprehensive
guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about
undertaking the dissertation. The book provides a plain guide
through the whole process of starting, writing, preparing and
submitting a dissertation with minimum stress and frustration. The
third edition has been revised throughout to bring the text
completely up-to-date for a new generation of students. Crucially,
five new and complete dissertations demonstrate and exemplify all
the advice and issues raised in the main text. These dissertations
are on subjects from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia and offer
remarkable insights into how to get it just right.
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Restless Cities (Paperback)
Gregory Dart, Matthew Beaumont; Contributions by Chris Petit, David Trotter, Esther Leslie, …
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R725
Discovery Miles 7 250
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the
attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that
runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces
the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the
nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With
explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide,
property, commuting and recycling, this wide-ranging new book
identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life
in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals. Bringing
together some of the most significant cultural writers of our time,
Restless Cities is an illuminating, revelatory journey to the heart
of our metropolitan world.
Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban
environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are
all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the
city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban
phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from
the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the
purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the
present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand
the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and
convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place
for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where
the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.
The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around
graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves
provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race,
class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates,
street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent
decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city
and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of
sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book
riveting.
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Skateboard Studies (Paperback)
Konstantin Butz, Christian Peters; Text written by Iain Borden, Konstantin Butz, Ocean Howell, …
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R971
Discovery Miles 9 710
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban
environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are
all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the
city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban
phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from
the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the
purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the
present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand
the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and
convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place
for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where
the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.
The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around
graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves
provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race,
class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates,
street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent
decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city
and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of
sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book
riveting.
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