Actions of architecture : architects and creative users

Resource Information

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Label

Actions of architecture : architects and creative users

Title remainder

architects and creative users

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Hill

Creator

• Hill, Jonathan, 1958-

Subject

• ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings | Public, Commercial & Industrial
• ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management
• ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design
• Architects -- Public relations
• Architects -- Public relations
• Architects and patrons
• Communication in architectural design
• Communication in architectural design
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Architects and patrons

Language

eng

Summary

Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author', in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware of the creativity of the reader. Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism. Subsequently it considers how an awareness of user creativity i

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

MT4IT

Dewey number

721.0688

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NA1996

LC item number

.H55 2003eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography