Actions of architecture
Subtitle: architects and creative users
By: Jonathan Hill.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Architects -- Public relations.; Architects and patrons.; Communication in architectural design.
Description: Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this volume considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The reader/viewer/user's guide; title: The role of the user; title: The passive user; title: From the reactive user to the creative user; title: The creative user; title: Montage after shock; title: The montage of fragments; title: The montage of gaps; title: The institute of illegal architects; title: Weather architecture (Berlin1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999-); title: White on white; title: Electromagnetic weather; title: The subject is matter; title: Turning a wall in to a window.