Architecture, materiality and society : connecting sociology of architecture with science and technology studies / edited by Anna-Lisa Muller, Werner Reichmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Anna-Lisa, editor.

Reichmann, Werner, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

This collection focuses on the interrelation of architecture and society. It examines the extent to which the insights of science and technology studies can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The book's case studies deal with various aspects of social life: ethics, neighbourhood life, ageing, perceptions and interpretations of the built environment, participation in design processes and interaction with and the adaptation of architecture. Architecture, Materiality and Society examines the question of whether architecture - and thus materiality as a whole - has agency. The book concludes with a thorough analysis of studies carried out so far on the interdependence of architecture and society, from the fields of both science and technology studies and urban studies. Finally, it proposes a theoretical and methodological approach to how to research architecture's agency within society. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Secrets of Architecture's Actions / Werner Reichmann Reichmann, Werner, Anna-Lisa Müller Müller, Anna-Lisa 2

2 Designing a Counter: the Constitutive Entanglement of the Social and the Material in Architectural Design / Marianne Stang Våland Våland, Marianne Stang, Susse Georg Georg, Susse 24

3 The Mutual Influence of Architecture and the Social in a Non-Home / Magdalena Lukasiuk Lukasiuk, Magdalena, Marcin Jewdokimow Jewdokimow, Marcin 48

4 The Emergence of Architecture-Transformations: an Examination of Architecture Experiences from the Perspective of the Sociology of Space and Actor-Network-Theory / Theresia Leuenberger Leuenberger, Theresia 69

5 The Parliament as a High-Political Programme / Endre Dányi Dányi, Endre 99

6 The Lure of Restoration: Transforming Buildings and Bodies for Ever-Longer Life / Jarmin Christine Yeh Yeh, Jarmin Christine 119

7 Infrastructures of Epistemic Moments: Buildings, Black Boxes, Improvement and Neighbourhood Change / Robin Bartram Bartram, Robin 145

8 Putting Architecture in its Social Space: the Fields and Skills of Planning Maastricht / Jeremias Herberg Herberg, Jeremias 166

9 Moral Agency in Architecture? The Dialectics of Spatializing Morality and Moralizing Spaces / Jeffrey Chan Chan, Jeffrey 198

10 The Actions of Architecture: Constituting a New Sociology of Architecture / Anna-Lisa Müer Müer, Anna-Lisa, Werner Reichmann Reichmann, Werner 215.

ISBN:

9781137461124

1137461128

OCLC:

910834786