Main entry:

Lucas, Ray (Professor of architecture), author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Description:

xviii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps, charts, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Typologies of Social Relation -- Inscriptive Practices and Anthropology -- Home and What it Means to Dwell -- Museums and Architectures of Collection -- Marketplaces and Sites of Exchange -- Routes, Walking, and Wayfinding -- Theatre and Festival: Performance and Liminal Space -- Restaurants, Food Events, and Sensory Architectures -- Conclusion: Towards an Anthropological Architecture.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781474241496 paperback
1474241492 paperback
9781474241502 hardback
1474241506 hardback
(epub)
9781474241519
(pdf)
9781474241526
9781474241533

Subject:

Architecture and anthropology.
Design Social aspects.
Architecture et anthropologie.
Design Aspect social.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307961
Call No.: BIB 253416
Status: Available