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Architecture and Anthropology Clare Melhuish

Architecture and Anthropology By Clare Melhuish

Architecture and Anthropology by Clare Melhuish


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Summary

Looking at the links between architecture and anthropology, this volume argues that the current crisis in architecture is related to a long-history of over-emphasizing matters of style, theory and technique, at the expense of spatial form and organization, and the social and cultural background.

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Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:; SPACE, TIME AND LANDSCAPE; Architecture in Space, Time (J. Till); Constructing the Scared (S. Coleman & P. Collins); The Dance of Architecture: From Ritualisation to Performativity...and Back Again?; (S. Rostas); An Anthropological View of Architecture (P. Jones); Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India (B. Doshi); Project Kumbakonam: A Ritual Topography (C. Kumbakonam); Supreme Court of Jerusalem and House in Tel Aviv, Israel (A. Karmi-Melamede & R. Karmi); Marika-Alderton House and Kakadu Landscape (G. Murcutt); Paradoxical Measures: The American Landscape (J. Corner); Colletta di Castelbianco: Village Reclamation Project (G. de Carlo); SUBVERSION AND ENGAGEMENT; Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship (J. Holston); Gendered Space: Encountering Anthropology (J. Rendell); About the House (J. Carsten & S. Hugh-Jones); The Invisible House, Acton, London (P. d'Avoine); Villa Anbar, Saudi Arabia (P. Barber); Taxim Nightclub, Istanbul and Luxury Highrise Apartments, Beirut (B. Coates); ANTHROPOLOGY OF NON-PLACE; About Non-Places (M. Augi); Thick Edge: Architectural Boundaries and Spatial Flows (I. Borden).

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GOR007395432
9781854902597
1854902598
Architecture and Anthropology by Clare Melhuish
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1996-06-30
112
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