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The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World
Contributor(s): Hammett, Jerilou (Editor), Wrigley, Maggie (Editor), Sorkin, Michael (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0826346863     ISBN-13: 9780826346865
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Criticism
Dewey: 720.103
Physical Information: 1" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.55 lbs) 328 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
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The Architecture of Change is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn't change, who saw the possibility of making something better and didn't hesitate to act.

Breaking down the stereotypes surrounding socially engaged architecture, this book shows who can actually impact the lives of communities. Like Bernard Rudofsky's seminal Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, it explores communal architecture produced not by specialists but by people, drawing on their common lives and experiences, who have a unique insight into their particular needs and environments. Running through their stories is a constant theme of social justice as an underlying principle of the built environment. This book is about opening one's eyes to new ways of interpreting the world, and how to go about changing it.

Contributor Bio(s): Wrigley, Maggie: - Maggie Wrigley lives in New York City. She works with the squatters' movement and the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. Her work has appeared in DESIGNER/builder, The Suburbanization of New York, and the New York Daily News.Hammett, Jerilou: - Jerilou Hammett and Kingsley Hammett cofounded DESIGNER/builder: A Journal of the Human Environment. Together they wrote The Essence of Santa Fe: From a Way of Life to a Style and coedited The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?