{"product_id":"reconstructing-architecture-critical-discourses-and-social-practices-volume-5-paperback","title":"Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices Volume 5 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas A. Dutton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReconstructing Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo create architecture is an inherently political act, yet its nature as a social practice is often obscured beneath layers of wealth and privilege. The contributors to this volume question architecture's complicity with the status quo, moving beyond critique to outline the part architects are playing in building radical social movements and challenging dominant forms of power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe making of architecture is instrumental in the construction of our identities, our differences, the world around us-much of what we know of institutions, the distribution of power, social relations, and cultural values is mediated by the built environment. Historically, architecture has constructed the environments that house the dominant culture. Yet, as the essays in \u003ci\u003eReconstructing Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate, there exists a strong tradition of critical practice in the field, one that attempts to alter existing social power relations. Engaging the gap between modernism and postmodernism, each chapter addresses an oppositional discourse that has developed within the field and then reconstructs it in terms of a new social project: feminism, social theory, environmentalism, cultural studies, race and ethnic studies, and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe activists and scholars writing here provide a clarion call to architects and other producers of culture, challenging them to renegotiate their political allegiances and to help reconstruct a viable democratic life in the face of inexorable forces driving economic growth, destroying global ecology, homogenizing culture, and privatizing the public realm. \u003ci\u003eReconstructing Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e reformulates the role of architecture in society as well as its capacity to further a progressive social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors: Sherry Ahrentzen, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Bradford C. Grant, California Polytechnic State U, San Luis Obispo; Richard Ingersoll, Rice U; Margaret Soltan, George Washington U; Anthony Ward, U of Auckland, New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas A. Dutton is an architect and professor of architecture at Miami University, Ohio. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eVoices in Architectural Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) and is associate editor of the Journal of Architectural Education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLian Hurst Mann is an architect and editor of Architecture California. A founding member of the Labor\/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, she is editor of its bilingual quarterly \u003ci\u003eAhora Now\u003c\/i\u003e and a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eReconstructing Los Angeles from the Bottom Up\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLian Hurst Mann is an architect and former editor of Architecture California. A founding member of the Labor\/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, she is editor of its bilingual quarterly Ahora Now and a coauthor of Reconstructing Los Angeles from the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.02 x 5.89 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757832274208,"sku":"9780816628094","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9e7b8af406924ef6edbb4137c9953e2b.webp?v=1780112839","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/reconstructing-architecture-critical-discourses-and-social-practices-volume-5-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}