Dr Charlotte Ashby (Programme Director and Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London, UK), Mark Crinson (Birkbec
Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither object-like nor building-like, but somewhere in between – air conditioning; bookshelves; partition walls; table-monuments; TVs; convenience stores; cars – exposing particular political configurations and resonances that otherwise might be occluded. In doing so, they reveal that the...
Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessin...