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LEADER: 01989cam a2200349 i 4500
001 2013015537
003 DLC
005 20131116075953.0
008 130611t2013 enk 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013015537
020 $a9780415637329 (hardback)
020 $a9780415637343 (pb)
020 $z9781315884141 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aNA2543.S6$bU84 2013
082 00 $a724/.6$223
084 $aARC000000$aARC001000$aARC004000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aUse matters :$ban alternative history of architecture /$cedited by Kenny Cupers.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2013.
300 $a275 pages ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aArchitecture and society$xHistory.
650 0 $aFunctionalism (Architecture)
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Criticism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aCupers, Kenny,$eeditor of compilation.