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      The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement
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      The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement

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      The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement book

      Edited ByFarhan Karim
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 10 May 2018
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712697
      Pages 506
      eBook ISBN 9781315712697
      Subjects Built Environment, Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies
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      Karim, F. (Ed.). (2018). The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712697

      ABSTRACT

      Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and construct an egalitarian global society. The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement offers a critical enquiry of socially engaged architecture’s current context characterized by socio-economic inequity, climate change, war, increasing global poverty, microfinance, the evolving notion of professionalism, the changing conception of public, and finally the growing academic interest in re-visioning the social role of architecture. Organized around case studies from the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, Germany, Australia, Taiwan, and Japan the book documents the most important recent developments in the field. By examining diverse working methods and philosophies of socially engaged architecture, the handbook shows how socially engaged architecture is entangled in the global politics of poverty, reconstruction of the public sphere, changing role of the state, charity, and neoliberal urbanism. The book presents debates around the issue of whether architecture actually empowers the participators and alleviates socio-economic exclusion or if it instead indirectly sustains an exploitive capitalism. Bringing together a range of theories and case studies, this companion offers a platform to facilitate future lines of inquiry in education, research, and practice.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part I|45 pages

      Engagement as Discourse

      chapter 1|11 pages

      What If … or Toward a Progressive Understanding of Socially Engaged Architecture

      ByTatjana Schneider

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Understanding Social Engagement in Architecture

      Toward Situated-Embodied and Critical Accounts
      ByIsabelle Doucet

      chapter 3|10 pages

      Toward an Architecture of the Public Good

      ByTom Spector

      chapter 4|9 pages

      Radical Democracy and Spatial Practices

      ByTahl Kaminer

      part II|68 pages

      Targets of Engagement

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Retracing the Emergence of a Human Settlements Approach

      Designing in, From and With Contexts of Development
      ByViviana d’Auria

      chapter 6|7 pages

      The United Nations and Self-Help Housing in the Tropics

      ByNancy Kwak

      chapter 7|16 pages

      Tracing the History of Socially Engaged Architecture

      School Building as Development Aid in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa
      ByKim De Raedt

      chapter 8|15 pages

      The Opera Village Africa

      Christoph Schlingensief and His Social Sculpture
      BySusanne Bauer

      chapter 9|13 pages

      Seeking Appropriate Methods

      The Role of Public-Interest Design Advocacy in the High Himalaya
      ByCarey Clouse

      part III|51 pages

      Structures of Engagement

      chapter 10|9 pages

      Reconceiving Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century

      ByNils Gore

      chapter 11|17 pages

      The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Social Engagement via the Built Environment

      ByMehreen Chida-Razvi, Mohammad Gharipour

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Sale Ends Soon

      Epistemological Alternatives to Flying Architects
      ByIjlal Muzaffar

      chapter 13|11 pages

      Creating the Environment for Social Engagement

      The Experience of Venezuela
      ByCarlos Reimers

      part IV|63 pages

      Subjects of Engagement

      chapter 14|17 pages

      Housing for Spatial Justice

      Building Alliances Between Women Architects and Users
      ByIpek Türeli

      chapter 15|15 pages

      Children’s Engagement in Design

      Reflections From Research and Practice
      ByMatluba Khan

      chapter 16|14 pages

      The Garden of Liberation

      Emptiness and Engagement at Suan Mokkh, Chaiya
      ByLawrence Chua

      chapter 17|15 pages

      The Darker Side of Social Engagement

      ByYutaka Sho

      part V|38 pages

      Tectonics of Engagement

      chapter 18|10 pages

      A Comparative History of Live Projects Within the United States and the UK

      Key Characteristics and Contemporary Implications
      ByHarriet Harriss

      chapter 19|14 pages

      The Do-It-Your(Self)

      The Construction of Social Identity Through DIY Architecture and Urbanism
      ByCathy Smith

      chapter 20|12 pages

      Building the Unseen

      A Shift to a Socially Engaged Architecture Education
      ByR. Todd Ferry

      part VI|53 pages

      Environmental Engagement

      chapter 21|18 pages

      Umdenken Umschwenken

      Environmental Engagement and Swiss Architecture 1
      ByKim Förster

      chapter 22|17 pages

      Material Participation and the Architecture of Domestic Autonomy

      ByLee Stickells

      chapter 23|16 pages

      Salvage Salvation

      Counterculture Trash as a Cultural Resource
      ByGreg Castillo

      part VII|73 pages

      Mapping Engagement

      chapter 24|12 pages

      Marginality, Urban Conflict and the Pursuit of Social Engagement in Latin American Cities

      ByFelipe Hernández

      chapter 25|13 pages

      Understanding Public Interest Design

      A Conceptual Taxonomy
      ByJoongsub Kim

      chapter 26|16 pages

      Architecture Before 3.11

      Unspoken Social Architecture During the Blank 25 Years of Japan
      ByTamotsu Ito

      chapter 27|14 pages

      The Reciprocity Between Architects and Social Change

      Taiwan Experience After the 1990s
      ByChun-Hsiung Wang

      chapter 28|16 pages

      Transforming the Spatial Legacies of Colonialism and Apartheid

      Participatory Practice and Design Agency in Southern Africa
      ByIain Low

      part VIII|52 pages

      Engagement in Emergency

      chapter 29|14 pages

      What We Can Learn From Refugees

      ByThomas Fisher

      chapter 30|16 pages

      Displacement, Labor and Incarceration

      A Mid-Twentieth-Century Genealogy of Camps
      ByAnoma Pieris

      chapter 31|12 pages

      Are Architects the Last People Needed in Disaster Reconstruction?

      ByMojgan Taheri Tafti, David O’Brien

      chapter 32|8 pages

      Architecture Without Borders?

      The Globalization of Humanitarian Architecture Culture
      ByShawhin Roudbari
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