ARCHITECTURE AND FIELD/WORK

Description

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.

Edited by: Suzanne Ewing, Jeremie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed, Victoria Clare Bernie

CONTENTS

Part 1: Field/Work Practice

• Introduction Jérémie Michael McGowan
• 1. Collaborative Practices: Hybrid Ethnographies and Fieldwork Approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India Martin Beattie
  
• 2. The Erotics of Fieldwork in ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ Michael Ostwald and Michael Chapman
• 3. Inside the Cave, Outside the Discipline Catharina Gabrielsson
  
• 4. Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle’s Early Forays to the Field Emily Scott
• Field Note 1: on inhabiting ‘thickness’ Andrea Kahn

Part 2: Field/Work and Site

• Introduction Chris Speed
• 5. Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex Jill Seddon
• 6. Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment: William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1971-1975 Miriam Fitzpatrick
• 7. Vietnamese Field /work: the Case of Hanoi’s Water Urbanism Kelly Shannon
• 8. Open Field: Documentary Game Renata Tyszczuk
• 9. The Critical Where of the Field: a Reflection on Fieldwork as a Situated Process of Creative Research Ella Chmielewska and Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak
• Field Note 2: A voyage into oral field/work Alan Dein

Part 3: Field/WorkTechniques

• Introduction Victoria Clare Bernie
• 10. Drawing Sites: : Site Drawings Paul Emmons
• 11. Field Diaries Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth
• 12. Contested Fields: Perfection and Compromise at Caruso St John’s Museum of Childhood Mhairi McVicar
• 13. Editing the Field: Video Tales from Globalised Cityscapes Krystallia Kamvasinou
• 14. Blighted Igor Marjanović and Lindsey Stouffer
• Field Note 3 Can Altay Afterword Jane Rendell

194 pages / 17 x 24,5 cm / English