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Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession
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"This engaging book is hard to place. It is a graphic novel with serious intent: to survey and critique contemporary ways of practising architecture. At the same time, it questions the idea of practice, as it operates in both a globalised construction industry and the industry of cultural commentary. So this is a professional practice textbook. But it is also a theory book. And a satire on architects and architecture. Meanwhile, it shows how cartooning and storytelling can yield methods for architectural research. Practiceopolis will be of interest to architects, to students of architectural design, practice, and theory, and to anyone who wants to think about what it means to construct buildings in the twenty-first century." - Adam Sharr, Professor of Architecture, and Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK
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This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. Les mer
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This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. They depict and dramatise the value conflicts between the different cultures of practising architecture and between the architectural profession and other members of the building industry as political conflicts around the future of Practiceopolis.
The book uses the metaphorical world of Practiceopolis to provoke big questions about everyday routines in the profession that practitioners may take for granted and to examine different ideologies at work among architects and other members of the construction industry. The novel ends in the tradition of dystopian worlds common in a certain strand of graphic novels.
By vividly illustrating and narrating the critical issues he interrogates, the author has created a world which any architect, student or professional, will both instantly recognise and simultaneously reject, provoking the reader to challenge themselves and the profession at large.
The book uses the metaphorical world of Practiceopolis to provoke big questions about everyday routines in the profession that practitioners may take for granted and to examine different ideologies at work among architects and other members of the construction industry. The novel ends in the tradition of dystopian worlds common in a certain strand of graphic novels.
By vividly illustrating and narrating the critical issues he interrogates, the author has created a world which any architect, student or professional, will both instantly recognise and simultaneously reject, provoking the reader to challenge themselves and the profession at large.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 266
- ISBN
- 9780367425432
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 25 x 17 cm
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"This engaging book is hard to place. It is a graphic novel with serious intent: to survey and critique contemporary ways of practising architecture. At the same time, it questions the idea of practice, as it operates in both a globalised construction industry and the industry of cultural commentary. So this is a professional practice textbook. But it is also a theory book. And a satire on architects and architecture. Meanwhile, it shows how cartooning and storytelling can yield methods for architectural research. Practiceopolis will be of interest to architects, to students of architectural design, practice, and theory, and to anyone who wants to think about what it means to construct buildings in the twenty-first century." - Adam Sharr, Professor of Architecture, and Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK
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