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OverviewA renowned architect and artist on how public architecture in our cities has lost contact with the lives of the common people. Behind the seemingly ordinary life of a practising architect lies a whole host of non-professional impulses that give shape to buildings. Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture and the City is about these impulses and conditions—social, literate, personal and political—which are expressed, but often ignored in architecture. Bhatia looks at the ordinary, physical, visible and tactile involvement of our urban environment and the way it affects, communicates with, or influences us. An all-inclusive sociology of architecture, the book draws on the social life of some of architecture’s role players, people whose peculiar demands on design have come to characterize the building environment of our times, and times that are characterized by this progressive isolation of architecture from the society of common people. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gautam BhatiaPublisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Weight: 0.690kg ISBN: 9789353280802ISBN 10: 935328080 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 19 September 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Reading the City City in Decline Public Architecture Architecture Definitions The Architect Architecture in the City Practice Architecture and the Bureaucrat Architecture as Style Architect as Builder The Home Owner Architecture Consumer Architecture in Urbanism Urban Art City Cosmopolitan City Space Architecture as Luxury Architecture as Commerce City History Architecture as Landscape Art as Politics Greening Architecture Architecture as Photoshop Architecture as Idea Art as Idea A Future ImaginedReviewsBook is exceptionally well written and is backed with immense on-hand experience... expertise mixed with this artistic mindset lend a unique voice ...an extremely interesting read. -- Privytrifles He has stirred the landscape of architecture with a barrage of words ...jarring inequalities that confront our urban lifestyles... describe the gross disparity that defines our divided cities. -- The Hindu, 24 March 2019 He has stirred the landscape of architecture with a barrage of words ...jarring inequalities that confront our urban lifestyles... describe the gross disparity that defines our divided cities. -- The Hindu, 24 March 2019 He has stirred the landscape of architecture with a barrage of words ...jarring inequalities that confront our urban lifestyles... describe the gross disparity that defines our divided cities. -- The Hindu, 24 March 2019 Book is exceptionally well written and is backed with immense on-hand experience... expertise mixed with this artistic mindset lend a unique voice ...an extremely interesting read. -- Privytrifles He has stirred the landscape of architecture with a barrage of words ...jarring inequalities that confront our urban lifestyles... describe the gross disparity that defines our divided cities. -- The Hindu, 24 March 2019 Author InformationGautam Bhatia graduated in Fine Arts and went on to get a Masters degree in Architecture. A Delhi-based architect, he has received several awards for his drawings and buildings and has also written extensively on architecture. Besides a biography on Laurie Baker, he is the author of Punjabi Baroque, Silent Spaces and Malaria Dreams—a trilogy that focuses on the cultural and social aspects of buildings. Blueprint, a collective of his architectural works will be published in 2018. Bhatia is currently working on Future Building: Ideas for the Future City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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