The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology : Contemporary Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stender, Marie.

Contributor:

Bech-Danielsen, Claus.

Hagen, Aina Landsverk.

Kobi, Madlen.

Zhou, Ying.

Series:

Routledge International Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This Handbook provides fresh insights into the debates and challenges that unfold in the cross-disciplinary field of architecture and anthropology. Based on studies of empirical contexts across the globe, the authors launch and test a broad variety of methods and advance various theoretical concepts.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements Page

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Critical Agendas and Contemporary Approaches to the Cross-Disciplinary Field of Architecture and Anthropology

Part 1 Methods

1 Paperwork of the Everyday: Reworking Welfare State Housing with Dirt, Dogs, and All

2 Relevé as a Tool for Drawing Attention: Migrant Dwellings in the Rif (Morocco)

3 On Sketch and Script: Artistic Sensibility in Urban Investigation

4 Comparing Fieldnotes, Converging Methodologies: Architectural and Anthropological Perspectives on Socialist-Modernist Mass Housing in New Belgrade

5 Visual Narratives of Inhabitation for Interrogating Inclusion in Social Housing Renovation in Brussels

6 Drawing Matters: Graphic Anthropologies in Architectural Education

7 The "Organic" Production of Space and its Social Order

Part 2 Processes

8 Of Flesh and Concrete: Autoconstruction in the Fitness Architectures and Anti-Architectures of Medellín, Colombia

9 The Temporalities of Demolition: Anticipation and Refusal on a London Housing Estate

10 The Timeless Fruition of Perishable Buildings: Correspondences with the Mebêngôkre People

11 The Frustrated Need for Meaning: Situational Aesthetic Boredom and Collaborative Creativity in Everyday Architectural Competition Work

12 Tiny Homes, Unreal Estate, and the Precarious Politics of Housing: The Case of the Wendy House

13 Form Follows Kinship: Loneliness and Family by Design

Part 3 Uses

14 Making a City, Reinventing Ruins: The Social Life of an Urban Infrastructure

15 Sharing Space and Making Home: Everyday Belonging in Multicultural and Low-Income Neighbourhoods in Norway

16 Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House.

17 Can Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? Anthropological Explorations of Openness and Boundary-Making in Architecture

18 From Function to Affordance: Observing Pedagogic Shifts through Use of Space in an Open-Plan School

19 Blue Tin Roof: How Architecture and Social Life Reflect, Inflect, and Deflect Each Other in Nepal

Part 4 Environments

20 On Polystyrene and Zebras: Integrating Ethnographic Perspectives and Architectural Innovation in Housing Retrofits

21 Circular Practices, Learning Processes, and Doing-It-Yourself on Japan's Empty House Renovation Projects

22 "Nothing Goes to Waste!": Processes of Demolition Material Reclamation in Istanbul and Beyond

23 Growing Spaces for at Least 100 Years: The Vegetal Politics of the Theatre of the Long Now

24 Dreams of "Stoffwechsel": Matter, Evolution, and Form in Architectural Anthropology

Part 5 Flows

25 Volcanic Ties: Mutually Constituted Landscapes in Mexico and the United States

26 Cementing Settler Colonialism: An Ethnography of Israeli West Bank Construction

27 The Cosmopolitan Pastoral: Mobilizing Peripheries from the Village to the City and Back

28 Chinese Enclaves in Spain: Urban Transformation of Industrial Districts and the Global Economy

29 Foreign Experts and Chinese Airports

Parallel Worlds: Missed Encounters Between Architecture and Anthropology

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-044011-8

1-04-044013-4

1-003-49501-X

9781003495017

OCLC:

1546969154