Caring architecture
Subtitle: institutions and relational practices
By: edited by Catharina Nord and Ebba Högström
Contributors: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (2014 : London, England); Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781443898966; 9781443845007
Subjects: Architecture; Congresses; Human factors; Hospital architecture
Description: Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book illuminates how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions.
Notes: "Based on a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, which was held in London in August, 2014"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references.