All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture

Name: All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367341954
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All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change argues that architecture's primary role should be fostering social change through inclusive engagement. Featuring original contributions and case studies by 58 thought leaders across the globe, it explores architecture as a revolutionary social practice addressing poverty, charity, health, technology, and exclusion within the discipline.

With exemplary projects from North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, the volume offers a thorough overview of socially engaged architecture and its potential to reform the profession's relationship with society.
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This book is essential reading for instructors, students, and professionals interested in public interest design and the social impact of architecture.

Through original contributions and case studies, this volume shows that socially engaged architecture is both a theoretical construct and a professional practice navigating the global politics of poverty, charity, health, technology, neoliberal urbanism, and the discipline's exclusionary basis.

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Should all-inclusive engagement be the major task of architecture? All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change presents the case that the answer is yes. Through original contributions and case studies, this volume shows that socially engaged architecture is both a theoretical construct and a professional practice navigating the global politics of poverty, charity, health, technology, neoliberal urbanism, and the discipline's exclusionary basis.

The scholarly ideas and design projects of 58 thought leaders demonstrate the architect's role as a revolutionary social agent. Exemplary works are included from the United States, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Europe. This book offers a comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of all-inclusive engagement in public interest design for instructors, students, and professionals alike, showing how this approach to architecture can bring forth a radical reformation of the profession and its relationship to society.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367341954

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 December 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 161 Halftones, black and white; 161 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Farhana Ferdous
Edited by Bryan Bell

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 374

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Farhana Ferdous is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Howard University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Australia, and conducted postdoctoral research in health care architecture at the University of Kansas (KU). She was a lecturer and Global Urbanism Faculty Fellow in the School of Architecture & Design at KU. She is an educator, designer, and scholar whose teaching and research career spans the continents of Asia, Australia, and North America. She is known globally for her scholarly contributions on the topics of the design of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias care facilities, healthy urbanism and environmental design for the elderly, and health and well-being in the built and urban settings. She has published widely on urban and environmental design, environmental psychology, and neighborhood walkability for the aging population. Her research has been supported by many prestigious grants and awards such as the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowship, Grantmakers in Aging (GIA) Fellowship, Endeavour Postgraduate Award, Toyota Foundation Grant, Academy of Architecture Health Foundation (AAHF), KU-Alzheimer’s Disease Center Pilot Award, and KU Strategic Initiative Grant.

Bryan Bell founded the nonprofit organization Design Corps in 1991 with the mission "to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without architects." His current work includes research on the field of public interest design and the SEED Network, which he co-founded. He has co-published four books in this field, has organized 33 Public Interest Design Institute and 18 Structures for Inclusion international conferences. His work has been supported by the Latrobe Prize of the Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and he has received 30 grants including seven from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was awarded a National AIA Award and was a National Design Award finalist. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Bell is an associate professor at the School of Architecture, NC State University; holds degrees from Princeton and Yale Universities; and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.