1st Edition

Architectural Anthropology Exploring Lived Space

288 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture, nor ethnography for... Read more

Foreword

Tim Ingold

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Architectural anthropology: An Introduction

Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielsen and Aina Landsverk Hagen

Architectural anthropology: Six methodological suggestions

Albena Yaneva

Part 1:

Home, walls and boundaries

Claus Bech-Danielsen and Marie Stender

  1. The viscous porosity of walls and people
  2. Sandra Lori Petersen

  3. An outdoor living room. Balconies and blurring boundaries
  4. Marie Stender and Marie Blomgren Jepsen

  5. Mould, microbes and microscales of architecture – an anthropological approach to indoor environments
  6. Turid Borgestrand Øien and Mia Kruse Rasmussen

  7. Homelessness and homeliness: Collage technique as a research method
  8. Laura Helene Højring and Claus Bech-Danielsen

  9. Walls and islands – exploring perpetual configurations of carcerality through architectural anthropology
  10. Runa Johannessen and Tomas Max Martin

    Part 2:

    Urban space and public life

    Sten Gromark, Aina Landsverk Hagen and Marie Stender

  11. Interdisciplinarity on site: Exploring the urban interventions ‘Unidades de Vida Articulada’ in Medellín
  12. Lisbet Harboe and Hanne Cecilie Geirbo

  13. Engaging with mixed-use design. The case of the urban library in Oslo
  14. Cicilie Fagerlid, Bengt Andersen and Astri Margareta Dalseide

  15. Urban youth, narrative dialogues and emotional imprints: How co-creating the "splotting" methodology became a transformative journey into interdisciplinary collaboration
  16. Aina Landsverk Hagen and Jenny B. Osuldsen

  17. What makes spatial difference? Conceptualising architectural anthropology through filmmaking
  18. Lina Berglund-Snodgrass and Ebba Högström

  19. After Belonging’: a study of proposals for architectural interventions for arrival of refugees in Oslo, Norway
  20. Eli Støa and Anne-Sigfrid Grønseth

    Part 3:

    Processes of creativity, participation and design

    Eli Støa and Aina Landsverk Hagen

  21. Architectural anthropologists in the making? Paths to creative youth participation in local urban development
  22. Ingrid M. Tolstad and Astri Margareta Dalseide

  23. Questioning the shape of social concepts: Transforming anthropological insights into architectural design drivers
  24. Drew Nathan Thilmany

  25. Rendering Atmosphere. Exploring the creative glue in an urban design studio
  26. Anette Stenslund and Mikkel Bille

  27. Constructing community? A collaborative housing development process, meeting credit and concrete
  28. Silje Erøy Sollien and Søren Nielsen

  29. Norwegian pilots: Navigating the technological logic of sustainable architecture

Ruth Woods and Thomas Berker

Afterword: Engaging architectural anthropology

Sarah Pink

Index

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Marie Stender is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Claus Bech-Danielsen is an architect and professor at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Aina Landsverk Hagen is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.