TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gissen,David
TI  - The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access. 
SN  - 9781517912505
AV  - NA2500 G47 2022
U1  - 720.87 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Disabilities
KW  - Human factors
N1  - 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 --

N2  - "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"--
ER  -