| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 222 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Reader/viewer/user's guide -- Role of the user -- Passive user -- From the reactive user to the creative user -- Creative user -- Montage after shock -- Montage of fragments -- Montage of gaps -- Institute of illegal architects -- Weather architecture (Berlin1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999- ) -- White on white -- Electromagnetic weather -- Subject is matter -- Turning a wall in to a window. |
| Summary |
Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author', in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware of the creativity of the reader. Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism. Subsequently it considers how an awareness of user creativity i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Architects -- Public relations.
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Architects -- Public relations. |
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Architects and patrons.
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Architects and patrons. |
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Communication in architectural design.
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Communication in architectural design. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hill, Jonathan, 1958- Actions of architecture. London : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2002015226 |
| ISBN |
0203327217 (electronic book) |
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9780203327210 |
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0203327217 |
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0415290422 (Cloth) |
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0415290430 (Paper) |
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