Stories of Storeys

Art, Architecture and the City
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-93-5328-080-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

A renowned architect and artist on how public architecture in our cities has lost contact with the lives of the common people.

Behind the seemingly ordinary life of a practising architect lies a whole host of non-professional impulses that give shape to buildings. Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture and the City is about these impulses and conditions—social, literate, personal and political—which are expressed, but often ignored in architecture. Bhatia looks at the ordinary, physical, visible and tactile involvement of our urban environment and the way it affects, communicates with, or influences us. An all-inclusive sociology of architecture, the book draws on the social life of some of architecture’s role players, people whose peculiar demands on design have come to characterize the building environment of our times, and times that are characterized by this progressive isolation of architecture from the society of common people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhatia, Gautam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Reading the City
City in Decline
Public Architecture
Architecture Definitions
The Architect
Architecture in the City
Practice
Architecture and the Bureaucrat
Architecture as Style
Architect as Builder
The Home Owner
Architecture Consumer
Architecture in Urbanism
Urban Art
City Cosmopolitan
City Space
Architecture as Luxury
Architecture as Commerce
City History
Architecture as Landscape
Art as Politics
Greening Architecture
Architecture as Photoshop
Architecture as Idea
Art as Idea
A Future Imagined

Über Autor(innen)

Bhatia, Gautam
Gautam Bhatia graduated in Fine Arts and went on to get a Masters degree in Architecture. A Delhi-based architect, he has received several awards for his drawings and buildings and has also written extensively on architecture. Besides a biography on Laurie Baker, he is the author of Punjabi Baroque, Silent Spaces and Malaria Dreams—a trilogy that focuses on the cultural and social aspects of buildings. Blueprint, a collective of his architectural works will be published in 2018. Bhatia is currently working on Future Building: Ideas for the Future City.