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Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures: 05 (Critiques) - Softcover

 
9780415566025: Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures: 05 (Critiques)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415566029 ISBN 13: 9780415566025
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others.

Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs.

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About the Author

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk and Stephen Walker all teach and research at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. They are members of the Research Centre Agency, which conducts transformative research into architectural practice and education, suggesting research activity that both creates and responds to shifting conditions. Instead of remaining passively (and safely) within academic environments, Agency sees itself as a collective of agents acting both within and between the fields of research, practice, education, and civic life.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415566029
ISBN 13 
9780415566025
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192
Editor
Kossak Florian, Petrescu Doina, Schneider Tatjana, Tyszczuk Renata, Walker Stephen