Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

Jonathan Hill - Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

Routledge | 2003 | ISBN: 0415290430 | Pages: 232 | PDF | 8.08 MB

A stimulating and exciting book that is imaginative and thought provoking ... the importance of the book is that it is one of the few to challeneg orthodox ideas and practices in the architectural profession, and for this it deserves to be widely read. - Environment and Planning B

'A book as important for its theoretical grounding as for its relevance to the future of the profession.' - Bobby Open, The Architectural Review

Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism.

Jonathan Hill is Director of the MPhil/PhD program of Architecural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Galleries where he has had solo exhibitions inlcude the Haus der Architektur, Graz and Architektur-Galerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart. He is the editor of two previous books with Routledge, Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User and Architecture-the Subject is Matter.