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Speaking of buildings : oral history in architectural research
- Title
- Speaking of buildings : oral history in architectural research / Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2019.
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- Description
- 319 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. 'Speaking of Buildings' offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Speaking from the inside : challenging the myths of architectural history through the oral histories of Maitland Gaol / Jesse Adams Stein and Emma Rowden -- Oral history as activism : the public politics of spoken memory / Karen Burns -- At the threshold of moral doors : crossing into rural Turkish Cypriot women's spaces / Ceren Kürım.
- ISBN
- 9781616897543
- 1616897546
- LCCN
- 2019004075
- OCLC
- on1083676242
- 1083676242
- SCSB-9585297
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library