Building-Object
Subtitle: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781350234000
Description: "Building-Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither object-like or building-like, but somewhere in between - air conditioning; bookshelves; partition walls; table-monuments; TVs; convenience stores; cars - exposing particular political configurations and resonances that otherwise might be occluded. In doing so, they reveal that the definitions we make of objects in opposition to buildings, architecture in opposition to design, are not as fundamental as they seem. This book brings new aspects of the creative and experiential into our understanding of the human environment."--