Overview

Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon—the primitive hut—and a common concern with both routine needs and ceremonial behaviours. Both could lay strong claims to a special knowledge of the everyday. And yet, in the 20th century, notwithstanding genre classics such as Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture without Architects or Paul Oliver’s Shelter, and various attempts to make architecture anthropocentric (such as Corbusier’s Modulor), disciplinary exchanges between architecture and anthropology were often disappointingly slight. This book attempts to locate the various points of departure that might be taken in a contemporary discussion between architecture and anthropology. The results are radical: post-colonial theory is here counterpoised to 19th-century theories of primitivism, archaeology is set against dentistry, fieldwork is juxtaposed against indigenous critique, and climate science is applied to questions of shelter. This publication will be of interest to both architects and anthropologists. The chapters in this book were originally published within two special issues of Architectural Theory Review.

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Author:   Adam Jasper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780367583729

ISBN 10:   0367583720
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Anthropology and Architecture: A Misplaced Conversation; 1. Towards an Architectural Anthropology—What Architects can Learn from Anthropology and Vice Versa; 2. Nature Versus Denture: An Ontology of Dental Prostheses; 3. Occlusions of the Operational Sequence: A Coincidental Conversation between Robert Matthew and André Leroi-Gourhan in Six Diagrams; 4. Imaging Vernacular Architecture: A Dialogue with Anthropology on Building Process; 5. The Emergence of an Architectural Anthropology in Aboriginal Australia: The Work of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre; 6. The House that Semper Built; 7. How to Love Modern [Post-]Colonial Architecture: Rethinking Memory in Angola and Mozambique Cities; 8. The Semio-Pragmatics of Architecture; 9. The Urban Microclimate as Artefact: Reassessing Climate and Culture Studies in Architecture and Anthropology; 10. Mauri-Ora: Architecture, Indigeneity, and Immanence Ethics; 11. A Conversation with Architects: Paul Oliver and the Anthropology of Shelter

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Adam Jasper has edited issues of the Architectural Theory Review and Future Anterior. He is also a regular contributor to Artforum and Cabinet Magazine. He studied Art History at The University of Sydney, Australia and taught in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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