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Author: Kenny Cupers
ISBN: 9780415637343

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From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways.

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Title Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture
Author Kenny Cupers (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Pages 280
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Publication date 2013
Features Index
ISBN 9780415637343 / 0415637341
Weight 1.98 lbs (0.90 kg)
Dimensions 9.5 x 6.9 x 0.6 in (24.13 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Architectural
Category Architecture
Library of Congress subjects Functionalism (Architecture), Architecture and society - History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013015537
Dewey Decimal Code 724.6

About the author

Kenny Cupers is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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