Best practices: A companion to architecture and Its messy relationship with building materials
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A thought-provoking guide to the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape,this publication proposes a new way of thinking about neighborhoods, housing developments, streetscapes, and storefronts, not so much as places defined by building codes, dimensions, or geographic features, but as assemblages of ad hoc interventions and incidental(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2021
Best practices: A companion to architecture and Its messy relationship with building materials
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$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
A thought-provoking guide to the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape,this publication proposes a new way of thinking about neighborhoods, housing developments, streetscapes, and storefronts, not so much as places defined by building codes, dimensions, or geographic features, but as assemblages of ad hoc interventions and incidental ephemera. It is an invitation to thoroughly reconsider issues of expertise, professionalism, power, ubiquity, defaults, communication environments, construction practices, and how these things confront architecture.
Architectural Theory