Building/Object - Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture

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 historyEach 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.>

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• Authors: Charlotte Ashby, Ashby Charlotte, Mark Crinson
• Assisted by: Charlotte Ashby (Editor), Dr Charlotte (Programme Director and Associate Lecturer Ashby (Editor), Mark Crinson (Editor), Mark (Birkbeck University Crinson (Editor), Crinson Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781350234000
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23400-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, DESIGN / History & Criticism, History of art / art & design styles, History of Architecture, Theory of architecture, design; architecture; history; material culture; disciplines