1st Edition
Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution constructed space conceptualized
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate, re-imagine and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: What?, LynnChurchill, Dianne Smith; Part I Ruin; Chapter 2 Damnatio Memoriae: Interiors and the Art of Forgetting, Edward Hollis; Chapter 3 Self-ruining and Situated Vagrancy: The Geography of Performance, Benedict Anderson; Chapter 4 Occupying Ruin, Lynn Churchill; Part II Repudiation; Chapter 5 Tragedy and Assimilation: Occupying the Patterned Surface, Kirsty Volz; Chapter 6 Ordinary Things, Domestic Space and Photography: Takashi Yasumura’s Interiors, Jane Simon; Chapter 7 Seeing the Unseen: This is Not an Interior, Vanessa Galvin; Part III Revolution; Chapter 8 Occupying Utopia: Collusion, Persuasion, Revolution, Lynn Churchill; Chapter 9 Hypersexual Occupations, Nicole Kalms; Chapter 10 With Feet Firmly Planted on Unstable Ground, Jesse O’Neill; Chapter 11 An Insane Perspective to the Occupation of Interiors, Dianne Smith;
Biography
Dr Lynn Churchill is Head of the Interior Architecture Program at Curtin University, Australia. Dr Dianne Smith is Associate Professor and Director of Research, School of Built Environment at Curtin University.
’A stimulating contribution to the emerging area of architectural encounters and experience, Occupation: Ruin, Repudiation, Revolution explores new ways in which architectural interiors and other spaces have been designed, imagined, recorded, re-performed, remembered, written about, emptied and inhabited. Diverse and challenging.’ Iain Borden, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
