Title & Author:

Architecture and field/work / edited by Suzanne Ewing [and others].

Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Description:

xiv, 194 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities

Notes:
Outgrowth of Field/Work, the 6th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, hosted by The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art in November 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-190) and index.
Collaborative practies : hybrid ethnographies and fieldwork approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India / Martin Beattie -- The erotics of fieldwork in Learning from Las Vegas / Michael J. Ostwald and Michael Chapman -- Inside the cave, outside the discipline / Catharina Gabrielsson -- Group pioneering : Robert Smithson and circle's early forays to the field / Emily Scott -- Field ntoe 1 : on inhabiting 'thickness' / Andrea Kahn -- Landscape with statues : recording the public sculpture of Sussex / Jill Seddon -- Fieldwork in public space assessment : William Holly Whyte and the Street life project 1970-1975 / Miriam Fitzpatrick -- Vietnamese field/work : the case of Hanoi's water urbanism / Kelly Shannon -- Open field : documentary game / Renata Tyszczuk -- The critical 'where' of the field : a reflection on fieldwork as a situated process of creative research / Ella Chmielewska and Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak -- Field note 2 : A voyage into oral field/work / Alan Dein -- Drawing sites::site drawings / Paul Emmons -- Field diaries / Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth -- Contested fields : perfection and compromise at Caruso St. John's Museum of Childhood / Mhairi McVicar -- Editing the field : video tales from globalised cityscapes / Krystallia Kamvasinou -- Blighted / Igor Marjanović and Lindsey Stouffer -- Field note 3 : 'Refuge'-moving between research and practice / Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay -- Afterword : Working (through) the field :/ / Jane Rendell.

Summary:

Positioned at a point of interchange between the disciplines of architecture and anthropology, this book is the first to identify and to critique key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits comprising our understanding of fieldwork in architecture. In the wider context of interdisciplinary spatial practice, this book explores the potential of the term 'field' and offers insight into how future research in architectural design and other practice-led disciplines might make productive links between academia and design professions.
Essays by established and emerging international scholars are arranged into three parts introduced by the editors, which move from practices to site to techniques, and are interspersed with field notes by experienced voices: Andrea Kahn (New York), Alan Dein (London) and Can Altay (Istanbul) with an afterword by Jan Rendell (London).
For students, academics and reflective practitioners in architecture, art history, theory, landscape and urbanism, this book offers a reassessment of methodologies, forms of aesthetic production and creative activity in architectural design, theory and practice.
Suzanne Ewing is an architect and academic who teaches architectural design at the University of Edinburgh. She is a partner at zone architects and contributes to public discourse on design in the UK and Europe through workshops, exhibitions and publication.
JTrTmie Michael McGowan is an artist, designer and academic who has taught and exhibited in the UK, United States and Finland.
Victoria Clare Bernie is an artist and academic who teaches architecture at the University of Edinburgh. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

0415595398 (hardback)
0415595401 (pbk.)
0203839447 (ebook)
9780415595391 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415595407 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203839447 (ebook)

Subject:

Architecture and anthropology.
Architectural practice.
Architecture et anthropologie.
Arkitektur praktik.
Arkitekturteori.
Antropologi.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Ewing, Suzanne.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296895
Call No.: BIB 243214
Status: Available