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9780415637343: Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415637341 ISBN 13 : 9780415637343
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kenny Cupers is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415637341
ISBN 13 
9780415637343
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
280
Éditeur
Cupers Kenny
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