Architecture and Anthropology

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon—the primitive hut—and a common concern with both routine needs and ceremonial behaviours. Both could lay strong claims to a special knowledge of the everyday. And yet, in the 20th century, notwithstanding genre classics such as Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture without Architects or Paul Oliver’s Shelter, and various attempts to make architecture anthropocentric (such as Corbusier’s Modulor), disciplinary exchanges between architecture and anthropology were often disappointingly slight.This book attempts to locate the various points of departure that might be taken in a contemporary discussion between architecture and anthropology. The results are radical: post-colonial theory is here counterpoised to 19th-century theories of primitivism, archaeology is set against dentistry, fieldwork is juxtaposed against indigenous critique, and climate science is applied to questions of shelter. This publication will be of interest to both architects and anthropologists.The chapters in this book were originally published within two special issues of Architectural Theory Review.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-06-30
Mått174 x 246 x 13 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor234
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367583729

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Introduction – Anthropology and Architecture: A Misplaced Conversation; 1. Towards an Architectural Anthropology—What Architects can Learn from Anthropology and Vice Versa; 2. Nature Versus Denture: An Ontology of Dental Prostheses; 3. Occlusions of the Operational Sequence: A Coincidental Conversation between Robert Matthew and André Leroi-Gourhan in Six Diagrams; 4. Imaging Vernacular Architecture: A Dialogue with Anthropology on Building Process; 5. The Emergence of an Architectural Anthropology in Aboriginal Australia: The Work of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre; 6. The House that Semper Built; 7. How to Love Modern [Post-]Colonial Architecture: Rethinking Memory in Angola and Mozambique Cities; 8. The Semio-Pragmatics of Architecture; 9. The Urban Microclimate as Artefact: Reassessing Climate and Culture Studies in Architecture and Anthropology; 10. Mauri-Ora: Architecture, Indigeneity, and Immanence Ethics; 11. A Conversation with Architects: Paul Oliver and the Anthropology of Shelter