Architecture and Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9781138475953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 234 str.

Adam Jasper

Opis

This book on Architecture and Anthropology presents architecturally informed research in all its contemporary openness and diversity. The chapters in this book originally published in Architectural Theory Review.

Spis treści

Introduction – Anthropology and Architecture: A Misplaced Conversation;  1. Towards an Architectural Anthropology—What Architects can Learn from Anthropology and Vice Versa;  2. Nature Versus Denture: An Ontology of Dental Prostheses;  3. Occlusions of the Operational Sequence: A Coincidental Conversation between Robert Matthew and André Leroi-Gourhan in Six Diagrams;  4. Imaging Vernacular Architecture: A Dialogue with Anthropology on Building Process;  5. The Emergence of an Architectural Anthropology in Aboriginal Australia: The Work of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre;  6. The House that Semper Built;  7. How to Love Modern [Post-]Colonial Architecture: Rethinking Memory in Angola and Mozambique Cities;  8. The Semio-Pragmatics of Architecture;  9. The Urban Microclimate as Artefact: Reassessing Climate and Culture Studies in Architecture and Anthropology;  10. Mauri-Ora: Architecture, Indigeneity, and Immanence Ethics;  11. A Conversation with Architects: Paul Oliver and the Anthropology of Shelter

O autorze

Adam Jasper has edited issues of the Architectural Theory Review and Future Anterior. He is also a regular contributor to Artforum and Cabinet Magazine. He studied Art History at The University of Sydney, Australia and taught in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.