Architecture and Field/Work

by Suzanne Ewing (Editor), Jeremie Michael McGowan (Editor), Chris Speed (Editor), Victoria Clare Bernie (Editor)

Overview

Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest to critical practitioners, researchers, scholars and students of architecture.

A selection of critical historiographies, theoretical strategies and reflective design practices challenge us to think seriously about our knowledge, experience and application of fieldwork in architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136884665
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/18/2010
Series:	Critiques
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Suzanne Ewing is an architect and academic who teaches architectural design at the University of Edinburgh. She is a partner at zone architects and contributes to public discourse on design in the UK and Europe through workshops, exhibitions and publications.

Jérémie Michael McGowan is an artist, designer and academic who has taught and exhibited in the UK, United States and Finland.

Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces at Edinburgh College of Art.

Victoria Clare Bernie is an artist and academic who teaches architecture at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Architecture and Field/Work Introduction Part 1: Field/Work Practice Introduction 1. Collaborative Practices: Hybrid Ethnographies and Fieldwork Approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India 2. The Erotics of Fieldwork in 'Learning from Las Vegas' 3. Inside the Cave, Outside the Discipline 4. Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle’s Early Forays to the Field Field Note 1 Part 2: Field/Work and Site Introduction 5. Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex 6. Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment: William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1971-1975 7. Vietnamese Field /work: the Case of Hanoi’s Water Urbanism 8. Open Field: Documentary Game 9. The Critical Where of the Field: a Reflection on Fieldwork as a Situated Process of Creative Research Field Note 2 Part 3: Field/WorkTechniques Introduction 10. Drawing Sites: Site Drawings 11. Field Diaries 12. Contested Fields: Perfection and Compromise at Caruso St John’s Museum of Childhood 13. Editing the Field: Video Tales from Globalised Cityscapes 14. Blighted Field Note 3 Afterword Jane Rendell