The architecture of disability : buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access /

"By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, this book presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advo...

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Main Authors: Gissen, David (Author)
Published: University of Minnesota Press,
Publisher Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Publication Dates: [2022]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, this book presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture"--
Carrier Form: xviii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781517912505
1517912504
9781517912499
1517912490
Index Number: NA2500
CLC: TU-021
Call Number: TU-021/G535
Contents: From Accessible Design to an Architecture of Disability --
Impaired Monuments: Architecture, History, and the Preservation of Disability --
Of a Weaker Nature: Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity --
The Urbanization of Disability --
A Form of Impairment: Empathy and Disfigurement in Architectural Aesthetics --
Disabling Environments: Human Physiology and Its Architectural Conditions --
The Construction of Disability: Another Architectural Theory of Tectonics --
The Practice of Disability.