1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement
Edited By Farhan Karim
Copyright 2018
506 Pages
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Routledge
506 Pages
114 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
506 Pages
114 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and construct an egalitarian global society. The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement offers a critical enquiry... Read more
Part 1: Public, Community, Society Public Interest Design: A Conceptual Framework Joongsub Kim (US) Part 2: Scarcity, Poverty, Exclusion Appropriation of Social Exclusion: Subject-Invisibility in the Representation of Space in Dhaka Shayer Ghafur (Bangladesh) Part 3: Participation, Engagement, Action Architecture and the Politics of Empowerment Adnan Morshed (US) Participation in Architecture: Reconfiguring the Common Ground Kush Patel (US) Participatory Urbanism and Radical Democracy Tahl Kaminer (UK) Part 4: Agency, Empowerment, Revolution Part 5: Critical pedagogy, Service learning, Professionalism Re-conceiving Professionalism in the 21st Century Nils Gore (US) Part 6: Ecology, Natural, Environment Dew Points Ijlala Mujffar (US) Part 7: Commodification, Spectacle What If…Or Towards a Redefinition of the Political Economy of Architecture Tatjana Schneider (UK) Part 8: Humanitarianism, Trauma, Benevolence Interventions: Architecture, Humanitarianism, Politics Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Andrew Herscher (US) The role and impact of design in post-disaster architecture Ted Yu-Shen Chen (AUS) Transgressive Territory: Refugee Camps, Internal Displacements, and the Language of Resettlement Sean Anderson (AUS). Contributor Biographies. Image Credits. Index
Biography
Farhan Karim is an assistant professor at the University of Kansas and the author of Modernism of Austerity: Designing an Ideal Home for the Poor (forthcoming, 2019). His current research focuses on the involvement of Euro-American architects in Pakistan (1947-71). His research has been supported by the Graham Foundation, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Aga Khan fellowship, Mellon-Volkswagen fellowship, and Australian Leadership Award.
