Home on the Range: Space, Identity and Belonging in the American West

ISBN-13: 9781784538491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Nina Vollenbroker

Opis

Discusses the nature of home and identity on the frontier of the American west.

Spis treści

Introduction:“Skills and Objects”The spatial agency of mobility.Chapter One:“Eight trunks, three carpet bags, one washtub of little trees, utensils for cooking and two provision boxes”Taking home onto the trails.Chapter Two:“My kitchen is roofed by the blue dome of heaven”Practicing a multiscalar home.Chapter Three:“We sleep rolled in Indian blankets like silk worms in cocoons”Home as Contact Zone.Chapter Four:“Who am I when I am not where I have been?”The performance of self in unfamiliar space.Chapter Five:“And so I look back to the home I left behind”Revers transfers.ConclusionIndex

O autorze

Nina Vollenbrocker teaches architectural practice, history and theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. She is a practicing architect and earned her PhD in Architectural History at the Bartlett in 2013. She previously ran a design studio and was seminar leader at Kingston University in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and a Visiting Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Brighton, UK.