Richard Bower

Architecture and Space Re-imagined

Learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice

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Produktbeschreibung

By looking to the spaces and practices of alternative development in the Global South this book offers a critical reflection upon the working practices of Westernised architecture and other spatial and political practices. In exploring the methodologies, implications and values of such participatory development practices this book ultimately seeks to articulate the positive potential and political of learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice in order to re-imagine architecture and space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781138934146
• ISBN-10: 1138934143
• Artikelnr.: 43680289

Autorenporträt

Richard Bower is a Lecturer in Architecture and Critical Spatial Theory at The University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Dialectical Materialism and Participatory Housing
2. Spatial Relations, Difference, and Multiplicity
3. Geometries of Power, Hegemony, and Small Changes
4. Identity and Practice
5. Unknown Space and Open Values: Coevalness, textuality, and critical
spatial practice.
6. Architecture and Space Reimagined?