Title & Author:

Drifting : architecture and migrancy / edited by Stephen Cairns.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

The architext series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drifting : architecture/migrancy / Stephen Cairns -- On cosmopolitanism / Jacques Derrida -- Architecture as evidence / Catherine Ingraham -- Mythforms : techniques of migrant place-making / Paul Carter -- Why architecture is neither here not there / Mark Rakatansky -- Migration, exile and landscapes of the imagination / Andrew Dawson and Mark Johnson -- Building Hong Kong : from migrancy to disappearance / Ackbar Abbas -- Conflicting landscapes of dwelling and democracy in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell -- Too many houses for a home : narrating the house in the Chinese diaspora / Jane M. Jacobs -- Emigration/immigration : maps, myths and origins / Mirjana Lozanovska -- Earthquake weather / Sarah Treadwell -- Pacific Island migration / Mike Austin -- La frontera's Siamese twins / Mike Davis -- Screening Los Angeles : architecture, migrancy and mobility / Brian Morris -- By the bitstream of Babylon : cyberfrontiers and diasporic vistas / Ella Shohat.

Summary:

"To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregrate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focused on the interaction of two elements within this contemporary situation. The first is the idea of a place we imagine to be distinctive and stable. This idea is explored through architecture, the institution that in the West has claimed the responsibility for imagining and producing places along these lines. The second element is a particular kind of global flow, namely the human flows of immigrants, refugees, exiles, guestworkers and other migrant groups.
This book carefully inspects the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It does so without seeking to defend the idea of place, nor lament its disaggregation. Rather this book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place."--Jacket.

Resources:
2004.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415283604 (hdbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415283601 (hdbk. ; alk. paper)
0415283612 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415283618 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203402023
0203402022

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Emigration and immigration.
Multiculturalism.
Emigration and Immigration
Architecture et société.
Émigration et immigration.
Multiculturalisme.
multiculturalism.
Architektur
Migration
Wohnen
Bouwkunst.
Migranten.
Multiculturele samenlevingen.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Cairns, Stephen.
Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241815
Call No.: NA2543.S6 D75 2004
Status: Available