The Architecture of Disability : Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access /

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"By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, this book presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gissen, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
Architecture > Human factors.
Disabilities > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Impaired Monuments: Architecture, History, and the Preservation of Disability
  • Of a Weaker Nature: Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity
  • The Urbanization of Disability
  • A Form of Impairment: Empathy and Disfigurement in Architectural Aesthetics
  • Disabling Environments: Human Physiology and Its Architectural Conditions
  • The Construction of Disability: Another Architectural Theory of Tectonics.

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