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Victor Buchli

Victor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and Editor of Home Cultures. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Anthropology of Architecture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...1 Having considered the home and architectural form in fragments and ruins and the complex effects of the wider circulation of these disintegrated forms and their flows and shifting registers, how might we then consider the wider sense...

Introduction

Albena Yaneva

Albena Yaneva is Professor in Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, UK and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, USA. She is the author of Mapping Controversies in Architecture (2012), The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture (2009), and Made by the Office for Metropolitan Design: An Ethnography of Design (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Five Ways to Make Architecture Political : An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...What is left from the classic parables of architecture and social control? What is the best story we tell to illustrate the political effects of architecture and building technologies? How can we better demonstrate how buildings get...

Technology and the Interior

Trevor Keeble

Trevor Keeble

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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Introduction In his 1923 polemic Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier first proposed the notion that “the house is a machine for living in.” Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, rev. ed. (London...

The Hearth and the Storyteller

Harry Francis Mallgrave

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architect, scholar and editor and distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of over 15 books, the recipient of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, and is an Honorable Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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From Object to Experience : The New Culture of Architectural Design

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

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...Olaf Blanke & Thomas Metzinger, “Full-Body Illusions and Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13:1 (2008), Abstract.We ask, what are the minimally sufficient conditions for the appearance of the phenomenal self...

Embodiment and Architectural Form

Victor Buchli

Victor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and Editor of Home Cultures. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Anthropology of Architecture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...1 As Carsten and Hugh-Jones (1995) noted, the relationship between the body and built form is difficult to disentangle; it is impossible to clearly say where the body ends and built form begins. What this observation entails, of course...

The All-Consuming House: Food and Architecture in Molly Keane’s Time after Time

Kevin Donovan

Kevin Donovan

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Food and Architecture : At the Table

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...‘Big House’ literature The ‘Big House’ has long been a term used colloquially in Ireland to refer to the homes of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, who, being descended from an older Protestant ruling...

Impolite Reading and Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France

Georgina Downey

Georgina Downey is an independent scholar and Visiting Fellow in the graduate art history program at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor is Professor of architecture at The University of Newcastle, Australia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Designing the French Interior : The Modern Home and Mass Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The eighteenth century in France is close enough in time for us to appreciate its exultation of the senses and its single-minded pursuit of pleasure. Yet, it is also far enough away to forget that these pleasures were largely imagined...

Design for Ageing-in-Place for High-Density Living in Asia: A Comparative Analysis on Residential Design in Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong

Ong Swee Hong

Ong Swee Hong

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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Introduction In accordance to a 2006 report presented by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the demographics of those greater than age 65 in Singapore, it is reported that by 2030, one in five Singapore residents will be greater...

Domestic Spirituality

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...Bonds With The Ancestors Eight of the thirty homes participating in my study possessed a Buddhist altar. This number corresponds with recent statistics...

Introduction

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

Book chapter

...The Japanese House? (Fawcett 1980: 12– 14) Does the Japanese house as we know it actually exist? The Western architect who goes to Japan can spend his whole time hunting feverishly for it in vain – what he...