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_qpaperback
020 _a9781517912499
_qlibrary binding
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_beng
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_dpucpr
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049 _aCARIBET
050 0 0 _aNA2500
_bG47 2022
082 0 0 _223
_a720.87
100 1 _aGissen, David,
245 1 4 _aThe architecture of disability :
_bbuildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access. /
_cDavid Gissen.
_htxt
264 1 _aMinneapolis :
_bUniversity of Minnesota Press,
_c2022.
300 _a194p.
_bill. ; photo. ;
_c22 cm.
_fbook
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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 --
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aArchitecture
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aDisabilities
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_xHuman factors.
942 _2lcc
_c27
_hNA2500
_kGeneral
_mG47 2022
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