Architecture and field/work / edited by Suzanne Ewing, Jeremie Michael Mcgowan, Chris Speed and Victoria Clare Bernie

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TextLanguage: English Series: Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities, vol. 6 / edited by Jonathan HalePublication details: Routledge, 2011. London :Description: xiv, 194 pISBN:

9780415595407

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720 ARC

Contents:

1. Collaborative Practices: Hybrid Ethnographies and Fieldwork Approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India / Martin Beattie-- 2. The Erotics of Fieldwork in 'Learning from Las Vegas' / Michael Ostwald and Michael Chapman --3. Inside the Cave, Outside the Discipline / Catharina Gabrielsson-- 4. Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle's Early Forays to the Field / Emily Scott-- Field Note 1 Andrea Kahn -- --Part 2: Field/Work and Site Introduction / Chris Speed --5. Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex / Jill Seddon-- 6. Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment : William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1971-1975 / Miriam Fitzpatrick-- 7. Vietnamese Field /work: the Case of Hanoi's Water Urbanism / Kelly Shannon-- 8. Open Field: Documentary Game / Renata Tyszczuk -- 9. The Critical Where of the Field: a Reflection on Fieldwork as a Situated Process of Creative Research / Ella Chmielewska and Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak. Field Note 2 Alan Dein Part 3: Field/WorkTechniques Introduction Victoria / Clare Bernie 10. Drawing Sites: : Site Drawings / Paul Emmons 11. Field Diaries / Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth 12. Contested Fields: Perfection and Compromise at Caruso St John's Museum of Childhood / Mhairi McVicar 13. Editing the Field: Video Tales from Globalised Cityscapes / Krystillia Kamvasinou 14. Blighted / Igor Marjanovic and Lindsey Stouffer Field Note 3 Can Altay Afterword Jane Rendell

Summary: Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest to critical practitioners, researchers, scholars and students of architecture. A selection of critical historiographies, theoretical strategies and reflective design practices challenge us to think seriously about our knowledge, experience and application of fieldwork in architecture

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Outgrowth of Field/Work, the 6th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, hosted by The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art in November 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-190) and index.

1. Collaborative Practices: Hybrid Ethnographies and Fieldwork Approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India / Martin Beattie-- 2. The Erotics of Fieldwork in 'Learning from Las Vegas' / Michael Ostwald and Michael Chapman --3. Inside the Cave, Outside the Discipline / Catharina Gabrielsson-- 4. Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle's Early Forays to the Field / Emily Scott--
Field Note 1 Andrea Kahn --
--Part 2: Field/Work and Site
Introduction / Chris Speed --5. Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex / Jill Seddon-- 6. Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment : William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1971-1975 / Miriam Fitzpatrick-- 7. Vietnamese Field /work: the Case of Hanoi's Water Urbanism / Kelly Shannon-- 8. Open Field: Documentary Game / Renata Tyszczuk -- 9. The Critical Where of the Field: a Reflection on Fieldwork as a Situated Process of Creative Research / Ella Chmielewska and Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak.
Field Note 2 Alan Dein
Part 3: Field/WorkTechniques
Introduction Victoria / Clare Bernie 10. Drawing Sites: : Site Drawings / Paul Emmons 11. Field Diaries / Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth 12. Contested Fields: Perfection and Compromise at Caruso St John's Museum of Childhood / Mhairi McVicar 13. Editing the Field: Video Tales from Globalised Cityscapes / Krystillia Kamvasinou 14. Blighted / Igor Marjanovic and Lindsey Stouffer
Field Note 3 Can Altay Afterword Jane Rendell

Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest to critical practitioners, researchers, scholars and students of architecture. A selection of critical historiographies, theoretical strategies and reflective design practices challenge us to think seriously about our knowledge, experience and application of fieldwork in architecture

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