Main entry:

Ingraham, Catherine.

Title & Author:

Architecture, animal, human : the asymmetrical condition / Catherine Ingraham.

Publication:

London : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

vi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Life (before) : Partitioning the orthopedic whole -- Inside and outside -- Life (before) -- Part II. Life (after): post-animal life : Post-animal life ; After ; Ways of life ; Hyena: totem animal of the late twentieth century -- Part III. The divide : Birds (from above) -- Birds (from below) -- Space: the animal field -- Praying mantis: totem animal of the thirties -- Mimicry -- Part IV. Milieu : Vertical, standing upright -- Framing -- Lascaux: totem milieu of the sixties -- Part V. Animal urbanism : Stock exchange: standing upright, idle -- The city: horizontal, upright, working -- Part VI. Processing : Engineering -- Processing.

Summary:

Considering the historical links between architecture and the development of life sciences, this work focuses on particular times of great change in these disciplines, and the complex relationships between life and the environments that life creates.

ISBN:

9780415701075 (pbk.)
0415701074 (pbk.)
0415701066 (hbk.)
9780415701068 (hbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture and anthropology.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture et anthropologie.
architectural theory.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243609
Call No.: BIB 173336
Status: Available