Caring architecture : institutions and relational practices /

Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive archi...

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Corporate Authors: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Other Authors: Nord, Catharina (Editor), Högström, Ebba (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Summary:Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book illuminates how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions.
Item Description:"Based on a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, which was held in London in August, 2014"--Acknowledgements.
Physical Description:vi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1443898961
9781443898966
1443845000
9781443845007