| Architecture: The Subject Is Matter Contributor(s): Hill, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415235464 ISBN-13: 9780415235464 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. Hill and his contributors acknowledge architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassess the object at is center: the building. It is whatever architecture is made of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds, or pixels. The fifteen chapters are divided into three sections--buildings, spaces, and bodies--which each deal with a particular understanding of architecture and architectural matter. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture |
| Dewey: 724.6 |
| LCCN: 2001019113 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.46" W x 9.7" (1.66 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object at its centre: the building. Architectural matter is not always physical or building fabric. It is whatever architecture is made of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds or pixels. The fifteen chapters are divided into three sections - on buildings, spaces and bodies - which each deal with a particular understanding of architecture and architectural matter. The richness and diversity of subjects and materials discussed in this book locates architecture firmly in the world as a whole, not just the domain of architects. In stating that architecture is far more than the work of architects, this book aims not to deny the importance of architects in the production of architecture but to see their role in more balanced terms and to acknowledge other architectural producers. Architecture can, for example, be found in the incisions of a surgeon, the instructions of a choreographer or the movements of a user. Architecture can be made of anything and by anyone. |