Framing Places

Mediating Power in Built Form
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-17367-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Architext

Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities we inhabit. Kim Dovey contends that the nature of architecture and urban design, their silent framings of everyday life, lend them to practices of coercion, seduction and authorization. The book draws from a broad range of social theories and deploys three primary analyses of built form, namely the analysis of spatial structure, the interpretation of constructed meanings and the interpretation of lived experience. These approaches to programme text and place, are woven together through a series of narratives on specific cities (Berlin, Beijing and Canberra and Melbourne) and building types (this corporate tower, shopping mall and domestic house).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dovey, Kim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Frames of Theorization. Power. Program. Text. Place. Part 2: Centres of Power. Take Your Breath Away. Hidden Power. Traces of Democracy. Part 3: Global Types. Tall Storeys. Inverted City. Domestic Dreaming. Part 4: Localities. On The Move. Rust and Irony. Afterword. Liberty and Complicity.