02159nam a22003257a 4500 pucpr 20230614103236.0 220817s2022 mnuao b 001 0 eng 9781517912505 paperback 9781517912499 library binding 9781452968544 ebook pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA2500 G47 2022 23 720.87 Gissen, David, The architecture of disability : buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access. / David Gissen. txt Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 194p. ill. ; photo. ; 22 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: From Accessible Design to an Architecture of Disability vii -- Impaired Monuments: Architecture, History, and the Preservation of Disability 1 -- Of a Weaker Nature: Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity 25 -- The Urbanization of Disability 45 -- A Form of Impairment: Empathy and Disfigurement in Architectural Aesthetics 73 -- Disabling Environments: Human Physiology and Its Architectural Conditions 95 -- The Construction of Disability: Another Architectural Theory of Tectonics 115 -- Coda: The Practice of Disability 139 -- Acknowledgments 143 -- Notes 147 -- Index 183 -- "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 advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture"-- Architecture Philosophy. Disabilities Philosophy. Architecture Human factors. lcc 27 NA2500 General G47 2022 300316 300316 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2023-05-10 Amazon 30.94 2 2 General NA2500 G47 2022 91000000069872 2024-09-06 14:53:06 2024-08-30 1 40.94 2023-05-10 27