000			00549nam a2200181Ia 4500
999			_c1988 _d1988
005			20181029113755.0
008			180707s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a978-0-415-63734-3
040			_aAIKTC-KRRC _cAIKTC-KRRC
041			_aENG
082			_a724.6 _bCUP _2DDC23
100			_aCupers, Kenny _92986
245		0	_aUse matters: An alternative history of architecture
250			_a1st Ed
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2013
300			_a275 Pages _bPaperback
520			_aFrom 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.
653			_aSUBJECTIVTY AND KNOWLEDGE; COLECTIVITY, WELFARE, CONSUMPTION; PARTICIPATION
942			_cBK _2ddc
650			_aARCHITECUTRE HISTORY (ARC-HIS) _94783