The architecture of disability : buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access / David Gissen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gissen, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Disabilities--Philosophy.

Disabilities.

Architecture--Human factors.

Physical Description:

xviii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Summary:

"By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, this book presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Impaired Monuments: Architecture, History, and the Preservation of Disability

Of a Weaker Nature: Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

The Urbanization of Disability

A Form of Impairment: Empathy and Disfigurement in Architectural Aesthetics

Disabling Environments: Human Physiology and Its Architectural Conditions

The Construction of Disability: Another Architectural Theory of Tectonics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version:

Gissen, David. Architecture of disability

Online version: Gissen, David. Architecture of disability

ISBN:

9781517912505

1517912504

9781517912499

1517912490

OCLC:

1342110774