Title & Author:

Architecture, materiality and society : connecting sociology of architecture with science and technology studies / edited by Anna-Lisa Müller and Werner Reichmann.

Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Description:

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Anna-Lisa Müller and Werner Reichmann -- The secrets of architecture's actions / Werner Reichmann and Anna-Lisa Müller -- Designing a counter : the constitutive entanglement of the social and the material in architectural design / Marianne Stang Våland and Susse Georg -- The mutual influence of the architecture and the social in a non-home / Magdalena Łukasiuk and Marcin Jewdokimow -- The emergence of architecture-transformations : an examination of architecture experiences from the perspective of the sociology of space and the actor-network-theory / Theresia Leuenberger -- The parliament as a high-political programme / Endre Dányi -- The lure of restoration : transforming buildings and bodies for ever-longer life / Jarmin Christine Yeh -- Infrastructures of epistemic moments: buildings, black boxes, improvement and neighbourhood change / Robin Bartram -- Putting architecture in its social space : the fields and skills of planning Maastricht / Jeremias Herberg -- Moral agency in architecture? the dialectics of spatializing morality and moralizing spaces / Jeffrey Chan -- The actions of architecture : constituting a new sociology of architecture / Anna-Lisa Müller and Werner Reichmann.

Summary:

"This collection focuses on the interrelation of architecture and society. It examines the extent to which the insights of science and technology studies can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The book's case studies deal with various aspects of social life: ethics, neighbourhood life, aging, perceptions and interpretations of the built environment, participation in design processes, interaction with and the adaptation of architecture. Architecture, Materiality and Society examines the question of whether architecture -- and thus materiality as a whole -- has agency. The book concludes with a thorough analysis of studies carried out so far on the interdependence of architecture and society, both from the field of science and technology studies and urban studies. Finally, it proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency within society."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781137461124 (hbk.)
1137461128 (hbk.)
9781137461131 (PDF ebook)

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture et société.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Müller, Anna-Lisa editor.
Reichmann, Werner editor.

Connecting sociology of architecture with science and technology studies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291184
Call No.: BIB 234606
Status: Available