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Titolo: | The architect-walker : a mis-guide / / Wrights and Sites |
Pubblicazione: | Axminster, England : , : Triarchy Press, , 2018 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 720.103 |
Soggetto topico: | Architecture and society |
Landscape architecture - Philosophy | |
Walking | |
Public spaces | |
Performance art | |
Conceptual art | |
Art appreciation | |
Persona (resp. second.): | HodgeStephen <1967-> |
PersighettiSimon | |
SmithPhil <1956-> | |
TurnerCathy | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Walking (including drift, derive and radical walking) is the principal way for people to engage with the built environment. Artist-walkers, performance artists, urban activists and others have created a new discipline out of urban walking. This book takes a step further, acknowledging the more active role we can all take. It reinvents the walker as architect-walker and offers tools and tactics for the engaged urban walker, a philosophy of ambulant architecture and countless examples of ways in which the authors and others are already practising architect-walking. 'The Architect-Walker' is Wrights & Sites' anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it. It is a tool for playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making. An invitation to engage. A few suggestions and observations from the book: * Build something, however small, that is not allowed. * Un-pave your garden. Make a hedgehog run under the fence. * Crawl more. * Protect what gaps you can. They aren't empty. They aren't yours. * In a group and in bright sunlight, carry sticks and timbers. Only pay attention to the shadows you cast. * Even to stand and look at the sky is to become a human signpost. * Find empty niches waiting to be filled with memorials to unacknowledged women. * Submit a planning application to move a major building 10cm. * What if we were to see the body as an ambulant building that is able to change the nature of space? * What is the smallest physical presence required to create a space? * Make alliances with sinkholes and dazzle - when the reflection from a skyscraper melts the streets. * When enough people dance a new dance of place, it becomes a different place. * Carry a small bell for ringing on the hour to restore local time to the streets. * Hang a red rope between two brass stands in front of a random space. Unhook it and usher people in. * Be conservationists of edgelands, authors of fake planning applications, chalkers of fake hobo symbols. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The architect-walker |
ISBN: | 1-911193-11-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910794221003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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