Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

ISBN-13: 9780415290425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 232 str.

Jonathan Hill;Jonathan Hill

Opis

Architecture is made by use and by design. 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. The book's thesis is informed by the text The Death of the Author, in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware of the creativity of the reader. The Death of the Author is an important influence on artistic production, encouraging less didactic subject-object and artist-viewer relations than ones familiar in the art gallery. Its relevance to architecture is equally strong but largely unnoticed.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Role of the User  1.1 The Passive User  1.2 From the Reactive User to the Creative User  1.3 The Creative User  1.4 Conclusion  2. Montage After Shock  2.1 The Montage of Fragments  2.2 The Montage of Gaps  2.3 The Institute of Illegal Architects  2.4 Weather Architecture (Berlin 1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999)  2.5 White on White  2.6 Electromagnetic Weather  2.7 The Subject is Matter  2.8 Turning a Wall into a Window  2.9 Conclusion

O autorze

Jonathan Hill is Director of the MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Galleries where he has had solo exhibitions include the Haus der Architektur, Graz, and Architektur-Galerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart. Jonathan is author of The Illegal Architect and editor of Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User and Architecture