Bourdieu for ArchitectsBourdieu for Architects

20112011 Helena WebsterHelena Webster

Helena Webster reflects on the consequences of Pierre Bourdieu's ideas for architects & the field of architecture.

Author: Helena Webster

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Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth centuryâe(tm)s greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieuâe(tm)s key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel conceptual frameworks for understanding architectural value, taste, and practice.

The Favored CircleThe Favored Circle

2002-02-222002-02-22 Garry StevensGarry Stevens

Do successful architects owe their success not so much to genius as to socialbackground and a host of other factors that have very little to do with native talent?

Author: Garry Stevens

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 0262692783

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Do successful architects owe their success not so much to genius as to socialbackground and a host of other factors that have very little to do with native talent?

Bhabha for ArchitectsBhabha for Architects

2010-01-282010-01-28 Felipe HernandezFelipe Hernandez

Architects have often lookedtothinkers inphilosophyand theoryfor design ideas,
or in search of a critical framework for practice. Yet architects and ... Forthcoming
titles include Benjaminfor Architects and Bourdieu for Architects.The series ...

Author: Felipe Hernandez

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135146627

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The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of ‘space’ has made his work highly appealing to architects and architectural theorists. This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on Bhabha’s seminal book The Location of Culture and reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study of contemporary architectures in general, not only in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Museum ArchitectureMuseum Architecture

2013-04-122013-04-12 Suzanne MacLeodSuzanne MacLeod

J. Hill, Actions ofArchitecture: architects and creative users, London and NewYork
: Routledge, 2003. P. Bourdieu ... MIT Press, 1998; Jones, The Sociology of
Architecture; and H. Lipstadt, 'Sociology: Bourdieu's bequest',Journal of the
Society ...

Author: Suzanne MacLeod

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134053551

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Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the prioritisation of specific stories of museum building and museum architects and the exclusion of other actors from the history of museum making. These omissions have contemporary relevance and impact directly on the ways in which the physical structures of museums are shaped. Theoretically, the book places a particular emphasis on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Henri Lefebvre in order to establish an understanding of buildings as social relations; the outcome of complex human interactions and relationships. The book utilises a micro history, an in-depth case study of the ‘National Gallery of the North’, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, to expose the myriad ways in which museum architecture is made. Coupled with this detailed exploration is an emphasis on contemporary museum design which utilises the understanding of the social realities of museum making to explore ideas for a socially sustainable museum architecture fit for the twenty-first century.

The Sociology of ArchitectureThe Sociology of Architecture

20112011 Paul JonesPaul Jones

Thanks to its application into a number of empirical studies by scholars working
in the tradition, Bourdieu's work has also contributed greatly to our understanding
of how power functions in the architectural field itself and also of how ...

Author: Paul Jones

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

ISBN: 9781846310768

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Drawing on sociological theories to assist understanding of how political power operates in the cultural sphere, The Sociology of Architecture frames the discipline as a field of symbolic and material conflict over social identities. This volume contests the notion of architecture as an apolitical endeavor and suggests that major architectural projects can act as tangible expressions of the ultimately contested nature of collective identities, thus shedding light on how those with power both legitimate and mark their position in the world.

After BourdieuAfter Bourdieu

2006-02-282006-02-28 David L. SwartzDavid L. Swartz

Bourdieu. and. the. sociology. of. religion: A. central. and. peripheral. concern1.
ERWAN DIANTEILL Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences ... Printed in the
Netherlands. common culture of Catholic clerics and the architects of the
CHAPTER 3.

Author: David L. Swartz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781402025891

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critical evaluations of his work, notably papers by Rodney Benson, 4 Rogers Brubaker, Nick Crossley, and John Myles. Indeed, it is the 1985 article by Rogers Brubaker that can truly be said to have served as one of the best introductions to Bourdieu’s thought for the American social scienti?c public. It is for this reason that we include it in the present collection. Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. The numerous obituaries and memorial tributes that have appeared following Bourdieu’s untimely death have revealed something of his life and career, but few have stressed the intersection of his social origins, career trajectory, and public intellectual life with the changing political and social context of France. This is precisely what David Swartz’s “In memoriam” attempts to accomplish. In it he emphasizes the coincidence of Bourdieu’s young and later adulthood with the period of decolonization, the May 1968 French university crisis, the opening up of France to privatization of many domains previously entrusted to the state (l’état providence), and, most threatening to post-World War II reforms, the emergence of globalization as the hegemonic structure of the 21st century. An orienting theme throughout Bourdieu’s work warns against the partial and fractured views of social reality generated by the fundamental subject/object dichotomy that has plagued social science from its very beginning.

From Autos to ArchitectureFrom Autos to Architecture

2012-04-172012-04-17 David GartmanDavid Gartman

In From Autos to Architecture, sociologist David Gartman offers a critical social history that shows how Fordist mass production and industrial architecture in America influenced European designers to an extent previously not understood.

Author: David Gartman

Publisher: Chronicle Books

ISBN: 9781568989600

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One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass production and mechanical products so inspired the first generation of modern architects like Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. In From Autos to Architecture, sociologist David Gartman offers a critical social history that shows how Fordist mass production and industrial architecture in America influenced European designers to an extent previously not understood. Drawing on Marxist economics, the Frankfurt School, and French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, From Autos to Architecture deftly illustrates the different class structures and struggles of America and Europe. Examining architecture in the context of social conflicts, From Autos to Architecture offers a critical alternative to standard architectural histories focused on aesthetics alone.

Becoming PlacesBecoming Places

2009-07-092009-07-09 Kim DoveyKim Dovey

About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power.

Author: Kim Dovey

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134117352

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About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through detailed fieldwork and analysis in particular case studies. Through a broad range of case studies from nationalist monuments and new urbanist suburbs to urban laneways and avant garde interiors, questions are explored such as: What is neighborhood character? How do squatter settlements work and does it matter what they look like? Can architecture liberate? How do monuments and public spaces shape or stabilize national identity?

Culture Class and Critical TheoryCulture Class and Critical Theory

2012-11-122012-11-12 David GartmanDavid Gartman

Between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School David Gartman. harshly criticized
this type of renewal, motivated largely by their own interests within the field of
architecture. In nearly all cases, the architecture of renewal projects was
controlled by ...

Author: David Gartman

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136169762

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Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinkers, especially Theodor Adorno. These ideas are illuminated and criticized through the development of two empirical cases on which Gartman has published extensively, automobile design and architecture. Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School postulate opposite theories of the cultural legitimation of class inequalities. Bourdieu argues that the culture of modern society is a class culture, a ranked diversity of beliefs and tastes corresponding to different classes. The cultural beliefs and practices of the dominant class are arbitrarily defined as superior, thus legitimating its greater share of social resources. By contrast, the thinkers of the Frankfurt School conceive of modern culture as a mass culture, a leveled homogeneity in which the ideas and tastes shared by all classes disguises real class inequalities. This creates the illusion of an egalitarian democracy that prevents inequalities from being contested. Through an empirical assessment of the theories against the cases, Gartman reveals that both are correct, but for different parts of modern culture. These parts combine to provide a strong legitimation of class inequalities.

The Autopoiesis of Architecture Volume IThe Autopoiesis of Architecture Volume I

2011-04-202011-04-20 Patrik SchumacherPatrik Schumacher

A New Framework for Architecture Patrik Schumacher. c03 JWBK485-
Schumacher October 21, 2010 ... Aesthetic evaluations condense into what the
sociologist Pierre Bourdieu refers to as 'taste'. Bourdieu might be quoted to
confirm some of ...

Author: Patrik Schumacher

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781119990499

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Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Author Patrik Schumacher offers innovative treatment that enriches architectural theory with a coordinated arsenal of concepts facilitating both detailed analysis and insightful comparisons with other domains, such as art, science and politics. He explores how the various modes of communication comprising architecture depend upon each other, combine, and form a unique subsystem of society that co-evolves with other important autopoietic subsystems like art, science, politics and the economy. The first of two volumes that together present a comprehensive account of architecture's autopoiesis, this book elaborates the theory of architecture?s autopoeisis in 8 parts, 50 sections and 200 chapters. Each of the 50 sections poses a thesis drawing a central message from the insights articulated within the respective section. The 200 chapters are gathering and sorting the accumulated intelligence of the discipline according to the new conceptual framework adopted, in order to catalyze and elaborate the new formulations and insights that are then encapsulated in the theses. However, while the theoretical work in the text of the chapters relies on the rigorous build up of a new theoretical language, the theses are written in ordinary language ? with the theoretical concepts placed in brackets. The full list of the 50 theses affords a convenient summary printed as appendix at the end of the book. The second volume completes the analysis of the discourse and further proposes a new agenda for contemporary architecture in response to the challenges and opportunities that confront architectural design within the context of current societal and technological developments.

Principalities and PowersPrincipalities and Powers

2013-07-122013-07-12 Jamie PittsJamie Pitts

For critical accounts of Bourdieu's relationship to Wittgenstein, see Schatzki, “
Practice and Actions,” and Stirk, “Wittgenstein and ... and Intellectual Field,” 118–
19, and “Postface” to Architecture gothique et pensée scholastique by Panofsky.

Author: Jamie Pitts

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781621897729

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Evaluations of John Howard Yoder's legacy have proliferated since his death in 1997. Although there is much disagreement, a broad consensus is forming that his theology was, on the one hand, focused on the social and political meaning of the New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ and, on the other hand, sociologically reductive, hermeneutically tendentious, and ecclesiologically ambiguous. This book proposes a revision of Yoder's theology that maintains its broadly sociological emphasis but corrects for its apparent problems. In specific, adjustments are made to his social theory to open it to spiritual reality, to hone its analytical approach, and to clarify its political import. His preferred framework for social criticism, the theology of the principalities and powers, is examined in the context of his wider work and its critics, and then synthesized with concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's influential reflexive sociology.

Architects the Noted and the IgnoredArchitects the Noted and the Ignored

19841984 Niels Luning PrakNiels Luning Prak

Bourdieu , P . , Le marché des biens symboliques , in : L ' année sociologique (
1971 ) , pp . 49 – 126 . Bourdieu , P . , Esquisse d ' une théorie de la pratique ,
Geneva 1972 . Bourdieu , P . , La distinction . Critique sociale du jugement , Paris
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Author: Niels Luning Prak

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: UOM:39015006737962

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Architecture s Historical TurnArchitecture s Historical Turn

20102010 Jorge Otero-PailosJorge Otero-Pailos

To take up a particular position , say , the position of architectural historian , one
had to have amassed a certain amount of cultural capital by earning the
recognition of other historians , architects , critics , students , and the like .
Bourdieu ...

Author: Jorge Otero-Pailos

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Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed how architects engaged, theorized, and produced history. In the first critical intellectual account of the movement, Otero-Pailos discusses the contributions of leading members, including Jean Labatut, Charles Moore, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton. For architects maturing after World War II, Otero-Pailos contends, architectural history was a problem rather than a given. Paradoxically, their awareness of modernism’s historicity led some of them to search for an ahistorical experiential constant that might underpin all architectural expression. They drew from phenomenology, exploring the work of Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, which they translated for architectural audiences. Initially, the concept that experience could be a timeless architectural language provided a unifying intellectual basis for the stylistic pluralism that characterized postmodernism. It helped give theory—especially the theory of architectural history—a new importance over practice. However, as Otero-Pailos makes clear, architectural phenomenologists could not accept the idea of theory as an end in itself. In the mid-1980s they were caught in the contradictory and untenable position of having to formulate their own demotion of theory.Otero-Pailos reveals how, ultimately, the rise of architectural phenomenology played a crucial double role in the rise of postmodernism, creating the antimodern specter of a historical consciousness and offering the modern notion of essential experience as the means to defeat it.

The Handbook of Interior Architecture and DesignThe Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

2013-10-242013-10-24 Graeme BrookerGraeme Brooker

... Country Living have their roots in such 1960s publications as the Whole Earth
Catalogue: a search for a more authentic cultural reality than the architecture and
design of either modernism, late capitalism, or historicism. It is Pierre Bourdieu's ...

Author: Graeme Brooker

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781472539045

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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world. Interior architecture and interior design are disciplines that span a complexity of ideas, ranging from human behaviour and anthropology to history and the technology of the future. Approaches to designing the interior are in a constant state of flux, reflecting and adapting to the changing systems of history, culture and politics. It is this process that allows interior design to be used as evidence for identifying patterns of consumption, gender, identity and social issues. The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design provides a pioneering overview of the ideas and arrangements within the two disciplines that make them such important platforms from which to study the way humans interact with the space around them. Covering a wide range of thought and research, the book enables the reader to investigate fully the changing face of interior architecture and interior design, while offering questions about their future trajectory.

Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians

20052005 Society of Architectural HistoriansSociety of Architectural Historians

While not a student of architecture with a capital A , Bourdieu was a student of
space . He began his career as an observer of the habitat of the Berbers , in their
villages , in the displacement camps to which they were moved by the French
army ...

Author: Society of Architectural Historians

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Includes special issues.

Benjamin for ArchitectsBenjamin for Architects

2010-12-102010-12-10 Brian ElliottBrian Elliott

Adam Sharr Architects have often looked to thinkers in philosophy and theory for
design ideas, or in search of a critical ... of: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari;
Martin Heidegger; Luce Irigaray; Homi Bhabha; Pierre Bourdieu, Walter
Benjamin; ...

Author: Brian Elliott

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136846359

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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism. This is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.

Understanding BourdieuUnderstanding Bourdieu

2002-03-292002-03-29 Jen WebbJen Webb

... was published in 1965; in 1967 his translation of German art historian Erwin
Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholastic Thought (with an introduction
written by Bourdieu) was published, and in 1969 Bourdieu published the findings
of his ...

Author: Jen Webb

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 0761974636

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Understanding Bourdieu aims to explain Bourdieu's work in a lively and accessible style with extensive reference to popular culture. Bourdieu's work is central to contemporary social and cultural theory as well as research and teaching, however, understanding Bourdieu can be a challenge. This book uses a range of examples from popular culture to flesh out the material in accessible terms. As such it is an ideal primer for all beginning sociology and cultural studies students.