Architecture and the Spaces of Information
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
: B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Output identifier
- 69094
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The special issue of Architecture and culture serves as a point of reference across several fields due to the cross-disciplinary expertise of the co-editors and their identification of further individuals whose work has been critically acclaimed. The editors’ collection points to an historical lineage but also to a recent transformation that has opened up a new plurality across art, architecture and editorial design in both practice and discourse. This is embedded in constructed contexts/environments that can broadly be described as ‘spaces of information’. The examples they have identified effectively demonstrate this significant transformation, as well as the social and cultural changes and opportunities for work and scholarship that this has opened. Blacksell’s paper in this special issue exemplifies this through a cross-referencing examination of works dating back to the 1960s by the historically renowned architect Claude Parent and those recently produced by the critically acclaimed art/design collective The Serving Library. Through focus on the ways in which hosting environment and forms of expanded publishing have served to dissolve disciplinary boundaries and activities of production, spectatorship and reception, the essay draws upon the historical lineage of 1960s/70s Conceptual Art in considering these examples as a means through which to escape medium specificity and spatial confinement.
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- Non-English
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