Research Catalog

Title

Project archive : an architectural survey of socially engaging extracanonical works / editor: Namrata Dhore, Sofie Kusaba & Christina Truwit.

Publication

Novato, CA : ard, Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dhore, Namrata
• Kusaba, Sofie
• Truwit, Christina

Description

volumes : color illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Project Archive reforms the contemporary architectural discipline's understanding of the built environment. The content encourages the audience to acknowledge the role of architecture as a political actant. Featured projects prioritize an attitude that goes beyond its formal elements of the current architectural canon. The projects give importance to both formal aesthetics and the ability to serve the urgent social needs of a community. Included projects also forefront lower-tech solutions. They enforce culturally resilient models of domesticity as sustainable living and a longer -- term response to ongoing environmental crises. Thus, showcasing extra-- canonical works provides an opportunity to reflect on diverse solutions. The content endorses learnings from regionally specific and environmentally resilient models of architecture. This book provides diversity in knowledge systems, and varied responses to; reforming traditional modes of domesticity, response to environmental and social crises and diverse conditions of a landscape. Developed through a decentralized research process, the book also creates space for interdisciplinary projects with contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, architects, etc. Featured list of writers include members at varied levels within academic institutions, architecture enthusiasts and independent researchers." -- Project description from the ard website at https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/project-archive

Subject

• Architecture and society
• Architecture, Domestic > Developing countries
• Architecture, Modern > Environmental aspects
• Sustainable architecture
• Architecture et société
• Architecture durable

Note

• Statement of responsibility from colophon
• Volume 1 focuses on "socially engaging architectural projects from the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania) that provide solutions to our current socio-environmental issues." --Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Volume 1. Socially engaging forms of domesticity.

ISBN

• 9781957183473
• 1957183470

OCLC

• on1346293514
• 1346293514
• SCSB-14667749

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries