audiobook Architecture and Participation by Peter Blundell Jones in Arts-Photography

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Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field; ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field; Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment; and the way that the eventual users may shape it. Divided into three sections; looking at the politics; histories and practices of participation; the book gives both a broad theoretical background and more direct examples of participation in practice. Respectively the book explores participations broader context; outlining key themes and including work from some seminal European figures and shows examples of how leading practitioners have put their ideas into action.Illustrated throughout; the authors present to students; practitioners and policy makers an exploration of how a participative approach may lead to new spatial conditions; as well as to new types of architectural practices; and investigates the way that the user has been included in the design process.