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Actions of architecture : architects and creative users /

By: Hill, Jonathan, 1958-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: vii, 222 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415290422; 9780415290425:; 0415290430 (pbk.).Subject(s): Architects -- Public relations | Architecture -- Philosophy | Architects and patrons | Architectural design | Communication in architectural designDDC classification: 721.0688
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.
Summary: Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this volume 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.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 721.0688 HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0053579
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-217) and index.

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.

Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this volume 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.

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