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Terms and conditions applyInstitution and Home: Architecture as a Cultural Medium
Julia Robinson
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Format: Book
Pages: 268
Publisher: Techne Press
Date Published: Dec 2006
Stock Code: 61075
Binding: Paperback
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The traditional dichotomy between institutional and domestic space does not adequately explain design in the 21st century, nor does it relate to the layperson's conception of a continuum between institution and home. By comparing various institutional and home environments, this book identifies the attitudes and behaviours associated with diverse housing settings and the design elements that generate and express them.
While the cultural analysis of design is generally based on subjective interpretation, this book goes beyond this, employing additional quantitative measures to provide a more definitive analysis. On the basis of methods such as semantic differential evaluation of images, inventories and space syntax diagrams, Julia Williams Robinson develops a territorial gradient delineating seven domains from intimate to public-urban based on numbers of users and spatial dimensions. On the basis of this, the text identifies different kinds of domesticity and institutionality. Such distinctions raise important questions about how design can empower residents and how the designer can become a positive force, constructing and influencing cultural messages using the medium of architecture. This book provides a wealth of information on housing that will interest both designers and theorists, students of contemporary urban culture as well as urban planners and architects.
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