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A section of now : social norms and rituals as sites for architectural intervention

Title
A section of now : social norms and rituals as sites for architectural intervention / edited by Giovanna Borasi.
Publication
  • Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig : Spector Books, [2021]
  • ©2021

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  • Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-
  • Neumann, Ann (Author)
  • Hester, Helen, 1983-
  • Power, Nina
  • Schradie, Jen
  • McNeil, Joanne
  • Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
Description
359 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs, plans (some color); 24 cm
Summary
'A Section of Now' aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications, and seeks to catalyse urban and architectural interventions that accommodate, influence, and, in some cases, pre-empt our new lived realities. Authors address topics ranging from the safety of digital spaces to how normative life trajectories affect the elderly and the many selves each of us puts forward, while architects present frameworks for, among other things, spaces for blended families, thirty-year-old retirees, and contested monuments. Bringing together analytical essays about the contemporary moment and the direction in which society is moving, projective texts that outline new architectural types to address societal needs, alongside television series, photography, and architecture and design projects, 'A Section of Now' outlines a new relationship between the spaces in which we live and the ways we live within them. Architect, editor, and curator Giovanna Borasi is Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Subject
  • Architecture and society
  • Social norms
  • Architecture, Domestic > Pictorial works
  • Families
  • Architecture et société
  • Normes sociales
  • Familles
Genre/Form
exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Statement of responsibility from page 1 of printed paper wrapper.
  • "Editor, Giovanna Borasi; authors, Ann Neumann, Helen Hester, Nina Power, Jen Schradie, Joanne McNeil."--Page 360.
  • "Published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and Spector Books in conjunction with the exhibition ... organized by and presented at the CCA from 13 November 2021 to 1 May 2022."--Page 359.
  • "Translation from Italian: Art Apart, GmbH (Steven Piccolo)."--Page 359.
  • "Issued also in French under title: Une portion du présent : les normes et rituels sociaux comme sites d'intervention architecturale."--Page 360.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
NA2543.S6
ISBN
  • 9781927071779
  • 1927071771
  • 9783959055079
  • 3959055072
OCLC
  • on1293294564
  • 1293294564
  • SCSB-14342036
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries