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Peripheries : edge conditions in architecture

Title
Peripheries : edge conditions in architecture / edited by Ruth Morrow and Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem.
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013, ©2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Morrow, Ruth, 1964-
  • Abdelmonem, M. Gamal
Description
xiv, 277 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
Summary
"Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how broad architecture has become, and the extent to which it has already merged peripheral practices into its core. This new volume in the AHRA Critiques Series is a statement about how broad, complex, influential, and, ironically central, architecture has become in the contemporary culture, economy and society, despite the marginal position the profession currently occupies. Peripheries questions and challenges the boundaries of architectural research by bringing together subjects and relevant streams of investigation, some of which rarely feature in architectural research and practice titles. Divided into four themes, Places of Formation and Insight, Practices at the Edge, People on the Margins and Edge Readings, each section presents a selection of high calibre interdisciplinary research papers, from a range of renowned contributors including Stephen Walker, Gerry Adler, Dana Vais and author Glen Patterson. The volume also includes a Dialogue between Murray Fraser, Christine Boyer and Kim Dovey. Each section interrogates a peripheral aspect of the built environment, and brings to the fore peripheral case studies. Chapters discuss architecture in United States, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Romania, and Europe. Hence, the book takes Architectural humanities discussions to new cultures, societies and practices and towards a global level of influence and impact."--
Series Statement
Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ; volume 8
Uniform Title
  • Peripheries (Architectural Humanities Research Association)
  • Critiques ; v. 8.
Subject
  • Architecture and society
  • ARCHITECTURE / General
  • ARCHITECTURE / Criticism
  • ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Peripheral Places of Formation and Insight -- Practices at the Edge -- People on the Margins -- Edge Readings.
ISBN
  • 9780415640299 (hardback)
  • 0415640296 (hardback)
  • 9780415640305 (paperback)
  • 041564030X (paperback)
LCCN
  • 2012040922
  • 40021818749
OCLC
  • ocn812122346
  • 812122346
  • SCSB-14616398
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries