Actions of architecture : architects and creative users /

Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of...

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Main Author: Hill, Jonathan, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2003
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The reader/viewer/user's guide
  • The role of the user
  • The passive user
  • From the reactive user to the creative user
  • The creative user
  • Montage after shock
  • The montage of fragments
  • The montage of gaps
  • The institute of illegal architects
  • Weather architecture (Berlin1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999- )
  • White on white
  • Electromagnetic weather
  • The subject is matter
  • Turning a wall in to a window.