On Discomfort
Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture
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Word Count
34,500 words, Guess
Page Count
138 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781472455338
- ISBN-101472455339
- Library of Congress Control Number2016021685
- OCLC Control Number960895161
- OCLC Control Number950081440
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781472455338
- Open LibraryOL28817978M
Classifications
- LCCNA203
- LCCNA2542.4
- LCCNA2542.4 .O5 2017
Description
Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and discomfort intersect, 'On Discomfort' offers a fresh reading of the negotiations that define architecture's position in modern culture. The essays do not chart comfort's triumph so much as discomfort's curious dispersal into practices that form 'modern life' - and what that dispersion reveals of both architecture and culture. The chapters presented in this volume illuminate the material culture of discomfort as it accrues to architecture and its history. This episodic analysis speaks to a range of disciplinary fields and interdisciplinary subjects as extends our understanding of the domestication of interiors (and objects, cities and ideas); the conditions under which - by intention or accident - they discomfort.
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