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Buildings and Society Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment

Edited By Anthony D. King Copyright 1980
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge
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    Buildings are essentially social and cultural products. They result from social needs and accommodate a variety of functions - economic. social. political. religious. Their size. appearance. location and form result not simply from physical factors such as mat­erials. climate or technology. nor from architects· designs. but from a society's ideas. its forms of economic and social organisation. and the beliefs and values which prevail at any one time. Society produces its buildings and the buildings help to maintain many of its social forms.

    Introduction Part I 1 A convenient place to get rid of inconvenient people: the Victorian lunatic asylum 2 The modern hospital in England and France: the social and medical uses of architecture 3 Design and reform: the ‘separate system’ in the nineteenth-century English prison Part II 4 The Hindu temple in south India 5 The apartment house in urban America Part III 6 A time for space and a space for time: the social production of the vacation house 7 Places of refreshment in the nineteenth-century city 8 Office buildings and organisational change Part IV 9 Vernacular architecture and the cultural determinants of form

    Biography

    Anthony D King is Associate Senior Research fellow in Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brunel University. He has previously held research and teaching posts at the Universities of Leicester, London. Washington, South Carolina and the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, where he was Visiting Professor in Social Sciences

    ... A fascinating book ...' - Sean French, The Sunday Times

    `This is a book I eagerly recommend to others, assign in courses, and use in myown research. It is a fine collection of illustrated essays on the social history of designed environments.' - Karen A. Franck, Contemporary Sociology
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