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OverviewThere are two occupations of architecture - the architect and the user. Both make architecture - the former by design, the latter by use. But the terms 'architect' and 'user' are not mutually exclusive: they exist within each other. Just as the architect is a user as well as a creator, the user can be an (illegal) architect, occupying and making architecture through both use and design. Occupying Architecture explores the relationship between the architect, the user and architecture, revealing that architecture is not just a building but that it is the relation between an object and its occupant. The contributors discuss how and why architectural production and discourse ignores the user. Beginning with the architect, the book proceeds to explore models for architectural practice that actively engage the issue of use, and concludes with examination of the user. Occupying Architecture proposes a complete re-working of the relations between design and experience to transform practices of the architect, and ways of seeing and using architecture. Architecture can be made by anyone and of anything: it is a question not an answer. Contributors: Jonathan Hill, Mark Cousins, Katerina Ruedi, Lesley Naa Norle Lokko, Jeremy Till, Fat, Carlos Villanueva Brandt, Muf, Paul Davies, Ben Godber, Iain Borden, Philip Tabor, Jane Rendell. Iain Borden, The Bartlett, University College London, Mark Cousins, Architectural Association, Paul Davies, South Bank University and Architectural Association, Fat, Greenw Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan HillPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780415168151ISBN 10: 0415168155 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 30 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Building an Architect. Curriculum Vitae. The Architect's Cultural Capital: Educational Practices and Financial Investments. Response Ability Architecture of the Impure Community. Contaminating Contemplation. Space Within. Art and Architecture, Shared Ground. The Illegal Architect. The Landscape of Luxury. The Knowing and Subverting Reader. Body Architecture: Skateboarding and the Creation of Super-Architectural Space. Striking Home: The Telematic Assault on Identity. Doing it, (Un)Doing it, (Over)Doing it Yourself: Rhetoric's of Architectural Abuse.ReviewsTo a practising architect in the field of socialhousing and tenant consultation, editor Jonathan Hill's stated aim, to undertake an investigation of the relationship between the architect and the user, was bound to be intriguing.. <br>-Dominic May <br> It is a good idea and a worthy aim.... <br>- Collin Davies The Architects' Journal, Oct 8 1998 <br> Author InformationJonathan Hill Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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