Full Description
This Handbook provides fresh insights into the debates and challenges that unfold in the cross-disciplinary field of architecture and anthropology. Based on studies of empirical contexts across the globe, the authors launch and test a broad variety of methods and advance various theoretical concepts.
Architecture and anthropology have always had overlapping interests, but a range of developments in both areas make it more relevant than ever to intersect, overlap, combine or even merge the two disciplines. In anthropology, the spatial, material, and non-human turns have paved the way for an increasing interest in, and need, of changing the world, rather than just studying it. On the other hand, architecture, beyond designing structures, has become interested in the uses and processes that unfold in, during, and after construction. The contemporary research and practices in both disciplines are testimonies that a cross-disciplinary exchange is inspiring for engaging with, and responding to, the challenges of a world in ecological, societal, and political turmoil.
This Handbook addresses established scholars, students and practitioners alike by outlining contemporary developments and tensions at the intersection of architecture and anthropology.
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
From Critical Distance to Critical Proximity: How Can Anthropology Inspire Different Architectural Research? Foreword by Albena Yaneva
Introduction: Critical Agendas and Contemporary Approaches to the Cross-Disciplinary Field of Architecture and Anthropology
Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielsen, Aina Landsverk Hagen, Madlen Kobi, and Ying Zhou
1_METHODS
1.0_Section Introduction
1.1_Paperwork of the Everyday: Re-working Welfare State Housing with Dirt, Dogs and All
Heidi Svenningsen Katija
1.2_"Relevé" as a Tool for Drawing Attention: Migrant Dwellings in the Rif (Morocco)
Lisa Raport
1.3_On Sketch and Script. Artistic Sensibility in Urban Investigation
Davisi Boontharm
1.4_Comparing Fieldnotes, Converging Methodologies: Architectural and Anthropological Perspectives on Socialist-Modernist Mass Housing in New Belgrade
Dalia Dukanac and Sara Nikolić
1.5_Visual Narratives of Inhabitation for Interrogating Inclusion in Social Housing Renovation in Brussels
Claire Bosmans, Katja Roslevitch and Viviana d'Auria
1.6_Drawing Matters: Graphic Anthropologies in Architectural Education
Nelson Mota, Alejandro Campos Uribe and Agim Kërçuku
1.7_The "Organic" Production of Space and its Social Order
Noel A. Manzano Gómez
2_PROCESSES
2.0_Section Introduction
2.1_Of Flesh and Concrete: Autoconstruction in the Fitness Architectures and Anti-Architectures of Medellín, Colombia
David Edgar
2.2_The Temporalities of Demolition: Anticipation and Refusal on a London Housing Estate
Caterina Sartori
2.3_The Timeless Fruition of Perishable Buildings: Correspondences with the Mebéngôkre People
Luísa Bogossian
2.4_The Frustrated Need for Meaning: Situational Aesthetic Boredom and Collaborative Creativity in Everyday Architectural Competition Work
Aina Landsverk Hagen
2.5_Tiny Homes, Unreal Estate, and the Precarious Politics of Housing: The Case of the Wendy House
Jean Comaroff
2.6_Form Follows Kinship: Loneliness and Family by Design
Pedro Rodríguez-Parets, Montserrat Lamela
3_USES
3.0_Section Introduction
3.1_Making a City, Reinventing Ruins: The Social Life of an Urban Infrastructure
Julia O'Donnell
3.2_Sharing Space and Making Home: Everyday Belonging in Multicultural and Low-income Neighbourhoods in Norway
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, Randi Aleksandra Narvestad and Eli Støa.
3.3_Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House
Sandra Marques Pereira, Tânia Lemos, Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez.
3.4_Can Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? Anthropological Explorations of Openness and Boundary-making in Architecture
Marie Stender and Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne.
3.5_From Function to Affordance: Observing Pedagogic Shifts Through Use of Space in an Open-plan School
Shunsuke Itoh.
3.6_Blue 'Tin' Roof: How Architecture and Social Life Reflect, Inflect and Deflect e-Each Other, in Nepal
Theo Hughes-Morgan.
4_ENVIRONMENTS
4.0_Section Introduction
4.1_On Polystyrene and Zebras: Integrating Ethnographic Perspectives and Architectural Innovation in Housing Retrofits
Maria Salaru / Rokia Raslan
4.2_Circular Practices, Learning Processes, and Doing-It-Yourself on Japan's Empty House Renovation Projects
Natasha Durie
4.3_"Nothing Goes to Waste!": Processes of Demolition Material Reclamation in Istanbul and Beyond
Erdogan Onur Ceritoglu
4.4_Growing Spaces for at Least 100 Years: The Vegetal Politics of the Theatre of the Long Now
Indrawan Prabaharyaka / Hannes Schwertfeger
4.5_Dreams of "Stoffwechsel". Matter, Evolution, and Form in Architectural Anthropology
Sascha Roesler
5_FLOWS
5.0_Section Introduction
5.1_Volcanic Ties: Mutually Constituted Landscapes in Mexico and the US
Sarah Lopez
5.2_Cementing Settler Colonialism: An Ethnography of Israeli West Bank Construction
Lies Defever
5.3_The Cosmopolitan Pastoral: Mobilizing Peripheries from the Village to the City and Back
Trude Renwick
5.4_ Chinese Enclaves in Spain: Urban Transformation of Industrial Districts and the Global Economy
Marta Catalán Eraso
5.5_Foreign Experts and Chinese Airports
Max Hirsh
Parallel Worlds: Missed Encounters Between Architecture and Anthropology
Afterword by Adam Jasper
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