Research Catalog

Title

Anthropology for architects : social relations and the built environment / Ray Lucas.

Author

Lucas, Ray (Professor of architecture)

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

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Details

Description

xviii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps, charts; 24 cm

Summary

"What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make - whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis - and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions. Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help designers to think about the social life of buildings at an appropriate scale: that of the individual life-worlds which make up the everyday lives of a building's users. Showing how anthropology offers an invaluable framework for thinking about complex, messy, real-world situations, the book argues that, ultimately, a truly anthropological architecture offers the potential for a more socially informed, engaged and sensitive architecture which responds more directly to people's needs. Based on the author's experience teaching as well as his research into anthropology by way of creative practice, this book will be directly applicable to students and researchers in architecture, landscape, urban design, and design anthropology, as well as to architectural professionals"--

Subjects

• Design > Social aspects
• Architecture and anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Typologies of Social Relation -- Inscriptive Practices and Anthropology -- Home and What it Means to Dwell -- Museums and Architectures of Collection -- Marketplaces and Sites of Exchange -- Routes, Walking, and Wayfinding -- Theatre and Festival: Performance and Liminal Space -- Restaurants, Food Events, and Sensory Architectures -- Conclusion: Towards an Anthropological Architecture.

Call Number

JQE 20-443

ISBN

• 9781474241496
• 1474241492
• 9781474241502
• 1474241506
• 9781474241519 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474241526 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474241533 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019049166

OCLC

1134459712

Author

Lucas, Ray (Professor of architecture), author.

Title

Anthropology for architects : social relations and the built environment / Ray Lucas.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JQE 20-443