Anthropology for Architects: Social Relations and the Built Environment
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 252714
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- ISBN
- 9781474241526
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book is a significant contribution to the emerging field of architectural anthropology. Distinctive from both design anthropology and the ethnography of architectural practice, the aim is to bring these two disciplines together in a more co-productive manner. Architectural anthropology is founded on an understanding that architecture as a discipline has theories and methods to contribute to the social understanding of space. The work draws on over a decade of field work, framed by pairing key anthropological theories such as habitus, liminality, and the dwelling perspective with building typologies from homes to markets and restaurants. The everyday is celebrated in all its complexity, and strategies are presented which enable practitioners to break down the assumptions they might have about a place and the people who use it. The book draws extensively on field work in South Korea and Japan as well as a thorough literature review presenting a broad range of classic and contemporary anthropological theory through an architectural lens. The book has been endorsed by Professor Tim Ingold of the University of Aberdeen, who noted that it ‘spells out with clarity and conviction the scope of a truly architectural anthropology’. Further endorsements are being sought from architects and anthropologists including Nick Dunn (Lancaster), Mari Hvattum (Oslo), Wendy Gunn (Monash), and Darko Radovic (Keio). Material from the book has been presented at a range of venues including a prize-winning paper at the International Union of Architects in Seoul, the Japan Architecture Society, the ETH in Zurich, and various UK universities. The book (264 pages) is highly illustrated, with the author’s own drawings, notations, diagrams and photographs further developing the arguments of the text. The aim of the book is to establish further research in this field, to inform teaching in architecture, and to develop further links between two allied disciplines.
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- Non-English
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