Consuming Architecture
Published on 29. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 96 pages
978-0-471-97859-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume looks at developments in retail and leisure architecture worldwide, covering new projects by prominent architectural practices. The contributors present projects which actively revolve around the notion of consumption, and develop discourses on popular meanings of architecture, as constructed through use and participations. They examine, from an architectural perspective, retail sheds, leisure boxes, shopping malls, airports, multiplexes, food courts, entertainment complexes and theme parks.
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Content
Partial table of contents:; Consuming Architecture (S. Chaplin & E. Holding); Consumption of Space and Spaces of Consumption (M. Gottdiener); A New Urban Strategy for Clubbing in Berlin (R. MacRae); Architecture as a Consumer Event (M. Fisher); Consuming Queerspace: Deconstructing the Glass Brick Wall (S. Ofield); Lipstick on the Face of an Elephant (P. Hinkin); Capturing the Leisure Zeitgeist: Creating Places to Be (J. Jerde); Scripted Spaces: Navigating the Consumer Built City (N. Klein); Terminal Architecture (M. Pawley); Architecture as a Good (R. Shields); List of Contributors.