Overview
- Provides a rare ethnographic account of a building project from the worlds of various design practices
- Reflects upon the political effects of design
- Translates Science and Technology Studies concepts into the field of architecture
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Variations of a Building tells the story of the making of a building. Based on a multi-sited ethnography of the building project for Aviva Studios (formerly, Factory) in Manchester, U.K., a theatre/cultural space designed by the architectural firm OMA, it explores the challenges of sharing in the act of creation by following the everyday practices of designers. Beyond the world of the architects, this book foregrounds a variety of other practices and realities at stake in the building, and offers a rare account of a building project from the point of view of the broader design and project team. More than the making of a building, it argues that it is also an experiment with, and reshaping of, a common world, showing what design practices and building projects can teach us about sharing in acts of creation and knowing. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, design, urban studies, Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Brett Mommersteeg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Manchester and a MA in Theory and Criticism from the University of Western Ontario. Previously, he was a teaching fellow at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. His research draws on Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies with a focus on architecture, environmental issues, and sound studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Variations of a Building
Authors: Brett Mommersteeg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6802-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6801-5Published: 18 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6804-6Due: 19 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-6802-2Published: 17 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Human Geography, Arts