Anthropology for architects : social relations and the built environment / Ray Lucas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Ray (Professor of architecture), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and anthropology.

Design--Social aspects.

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2020]

Summary:

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make - whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis - and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions. Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help designers to think about the social life of buildings at an appropriate scale: that of the individual life-worlds which make up the everyday lives of a building's users. Showing how anthropology offers an invaluable framework for thinking about complex, messy, real-world situations, the book argues that, ultimately, a truly anthropological architecture offers the potential for a more socially informed, engaged and sensitive architecture which responds more directly to people's needs. Based on the author's experience teaching as well as his research into anthropology by way of creative practice, this book will be directly applicable to students and researchers in architecture, landscape, urban design, and design anthropology, as well as to architectural professionals.

Contents:

Inscriptive Practices and Anthropology

Home and What it Means to Dwell

Museums and Architectures of Collection

Marketplaces and Sites of Exchange

Routes, Walking, and Way-finding

Theatre & Festival: Performance and Liminal Space

Restaurants, Food Events, and Sensory Architectures

Conclusion: Towards an Anthropological Architecture.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474241519

1474241514

9781474241526

1474241522