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Building/object : shared and contested territories of design and architecture / edited by Charlotte Ashby and Mark Crinson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 289 Pages : Illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350234031
  • 1350234036
  • 9781350234017
Other title:
  • Building/Object
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Building/objectDDC classification:
  • 745.2 BUI 23
LOC classification:
  • NK1505 .B85 2022eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Adrian Forty (University College London, UK) -- Introduction / Mark Crinson and Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) -- Part 1: Grey Zones. 1. A Good Shelf: The Material Culture of Reading in Colonial India / Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA) ; 2. Power of Television in Modern Turkish Homes / Meltem Gurel (Yasar University, Turkey) ; 3. Bin, Bag, Box: The Architecture of Convenience / Louisa Iarocci (University of Washington, USA) ; 4. Atmospheric Exchanges: Air-conditioning, Thermal Material Culture, and Public Housing in Singapore / Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) ; 5. Beyond Buildings and Objects: Reyner Banham's Freeway Ecology / Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- Part 2: Dissolved Distinctions. 6. Designing for a Nocturnal Banquet, Versailles 1674 / Panagiotis Doudesis (University of Cambridge, UK) ; 7. Printed Objects and Ready-Mades in the Architectural Magazine (1834-38) / Anne Hultzsch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) ; 8. Entangled Histories of Buildings and Furniture: Knoll International and the Production and Mediation of Modern Architecture in Post-war Belgium / Fredie Flor©© (KU Leuven, Belgium) ; 9. Disaster Relief and 'Universal Shelters': Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976 / Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland) and Lilían Sánchez-Moreno (University for the Creative Arts, UK) -- Part 3: Uneasy Difference. 10. Regulation by Design: Reification and Building Regulations / Alistair Cartwright (Independent Scholar, UK) ; 11. The Relational Object: Haus-Rucker-Co.'s Designs for Re-Shaping the Environment / Ross K. Elfline (Carleton College, USA) ; 12. The Stylistic End-games of Modernism: High Tech Design in Criticism and History / Jane Pavitt (Kingston University, UK) ; 13. Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil / Livia Rezende (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Tatiana Pinto (Independent Scholar, Sweden) -- Afterword / Ben Highmore (University of Sussex, UK) -- Index.
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Books Books Main library Faculty of Engineering & Technology (General) 745.2 BUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 00017550

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Adrian Forty (University College London, UK) -- Introduction / Mark Crinson and Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) -- Part 1: Grey Zones. 1. A Good Shelf: The Material Culture of Reading in Colonial India / Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA) ; 2. Power of Television in Modern Turkish Homes / Meltem Gurel (Yasar University, Turkey) ; 3. Bin, Bag, Box: The Architecture of Convenience / Louisa Iarocci (University of Washington, USA) ; 4. Atmospheric Exchanges: Air-conditioning, Thermal Material Culture, and Public Housing in Singapore / Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) ; 5. Beyond Buildings and Objects: Reyner Banham's Freeway Ecology / Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- Part 2: Dissolved Distinctions. 6. Designing for a Nocturnal Banquet, Versailles 1674 / Panagiotis Doudesis (University of Cambridge, UK) ; 7. Printed Objects and Ready-Mades in the Architectural Magazine (1834-38) / Anne Hultzsch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) ; 8. Entangled Histories of Buildings and Furniture: Knoll International and the Production and Mediation of Modern Architecture in Post-war Belgium / Fredie Flor©© (KU Leuven, Belgium) ; 9. Disaster Relief and 'Universal Shelters': Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976 / Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland) and Lilían Sánchez-Moreno (University for the Creative Arts, UK) -- Part 3: Uneasy Difference. 10. Regulation by Design: Reification and Building Regulations / Alistair Cartwright (Independent Scholar, UK) ; 11. The Relational Object: Haus-Rucker-Co.'s Designs for Re-Shaping the Environment / Ross K. Elfline (Carleton College, USA) ; 12. The Stylistic End-games of Modernism: High Tech Design in Criticism and History / Jane Pavitt (Kingston University, UK) ; 13. Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil / Livia Rezende (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Tatiana Pinto (Independent Scholar, Sweden) -- Afterword / Ben Highmore (University of Sussex, UK) -- Index.

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