Use Matters
An Alternative History of Architecture
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 univer…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-66159-6
- EAN: 9781134661596
- Produktnummer: 16946146
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 11'280 KB
- Abbildungen: 118 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 32 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
Über den Autor
Kenny Cupers is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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