Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy

ISBN-13: 9780415283618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 318 str.

Stephen Cairns

Opis

The contributors to this volume inspect the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place.

Recenzje

'Nicely captures the enormous and "unaccounted" urban significance of the population that migrates between countries and into cities globally.' - Space and Culture

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy  2. On Cosmopolitanism  3. Architecture as Evidence  4. Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making  5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There  6. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination  7. Building Hong Kong: from Migrancy to Disappearance  8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada  9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora  10. Emigration / Immigration: Maps, Myths and Origins  11. Earthquake Weather  12. Pacific Migration  13. La Frontera's Siamese Twins  14. Screening Los Angeles: Architecture, Mobility and Migrancy  15. By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diaspora Vistas

O autorze

Stephen Cairns teaches architecture theory and design at the University of Edinburgh. He works on contemporary architecture and urbanism often in the context of postcolonial criticism, cross-cultural and transnational studies, and with a particular empirical focus on Southeast Asia.