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Actions of Architecture Architects and Creative Users

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ISBN-10: 0415290422

ISBN-13: 9780415290425

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jonathan Hill

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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 Architecturebegins 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 informs architecture, architects and concepts of authorship in architectural design. Identifying…    
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Book details

List price: $205.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/23/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Jonathan Hill is Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Exeter. He holds an MPhil in Theology from Oxford, and a PhD in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The History of Christian Thought (Lion, 2003), What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us? (Lion, 2005), The Big Questions (Lion, 2007), and The New Lion Handbook: The History of Christianity (Lion, 2007).

Introduction
The Role of the User
The Passive User
From the Reactive User to the Creative User
The Creative User
Conclusion
Montage After Shock
The Montage of Fragments
The Montage of Gaps
The Institute of Illegal Architects
Weather Architecture (Berlin 1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999)
White on White
Electromagnetic Weather
The Subject is Matter
Turning a Wall into a Window
Conclusion