Use matters: An alternative history of architecture
By: Cupers, Kenny
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Publisher: New York Routledge 2013Edition: 1st Ed.Description: 275 Pages | Binding - Paperback |.ISBN: 978-0-415-63734-3.Subject(s): SUBJECTIVTY AND KNOWLEDGE; COLECTIVITY, WELFARE, CONSUMPTION; PARTICIPATION | ARCHITECUTRE HISTORY (ARC-HIS)![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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724.6 CAT Building for tommorrow: Visionary architecture from around the world | 724.6 COH Future of architecture since 1889 | 724.6 COR Who built that? Modern houses | 724.6 CUP Use matters: An alternative history of architecture | 724.6 CUR Modern architecture since 1900 | 724.6 DAG Twenty houses by twenty architects | 724.6 DAL 20th century compulsions |
From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways.
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