Architecture and Field/Work
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2010
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-415-59539-1 (ISBN)
Description
Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest to critical practitioners, researchers, scholars and students of architecture.
A selection of critical historiographies, theoretical strategies and reflective design practices challenge us to think seriously about our knowledge, experience and application of fieldwork in architecture.
A selection of critical historiographies, theoretical strategies and reflective design practices challenge us to think seriously about our knowledge, experience and application of fieldwork in architecture.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
45 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
45 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-59539-1 (9780415595391)
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Persons
Suzanne Ewing is an architect and academic who teaches architectural design at the University of Edinburgh. She is a partner at zone architects and contributes to public discourse on design in the UK and Europe through workshops, exhibitions and publications.
Jeremie Michael McGowan is an artist, designer and academic who has taught and exhibited in the UK, United States and Finland.
Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces at Edinburgh College of Art.
Victoria Clare Bernie is an artist and academic who teaches architecture at the University of Edinburgh.
Jeremie Michael McGowan is an artist, designer and academic who has taught and exhibited in the UK, United States and Finland.
Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces at Edinburgh College of Art.
Victoria Clare Bernie is an artist and academic who teaches architecture at the University of Edinburgh.
Editor
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh University, UK
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh University, UK
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh University, UK
Content
Architecture and Field/Work Introduction Part 1: Field/Work Practice Introduction 1. Collaborative Practices: Hybrid Ethnographies and Fieldwork Approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India 2. The Erotics of Fieldwork in 'Learning from Las Vegas' 3. Inside the Cave, Outside the Discipline 4. Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle's Early Forays to the Field Field Note 1 Part 2: Field/Work and Site Introduction 5. Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex 6. Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment: William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1971-1975 7. Vietnamese Field /work: the Case of Hanoi's Water Urbanism 8. Open Field: Documentary Game 9. The Critical Where of the Field: a Reflection on Fieldwork as a Situated Process of Creative Research Field Note 2 Part 3: Field/WorkTechniques Introduction 10. Drawing Sites: Site Drawings 11. Field Diaries 12. Contested Fields: Perfection and Compromise at Caruso St John's Museum of Childhood 13. Editing the Field: Video Tales from Globalised Cityscapes 14. Blighted Field Note 3 Afterword Jane Rendell