The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Notes on Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Preface: Monumentality and Insurgency Introduction: Architecture and Social Engagement Postscript: How and When Was Architecture Socially Engaged? Part I Engagement as Discourse 1 What If . . . or Toward a Progressive Understanding of Socially Engaged Architecture 2 Understanding Social Engagement in Architecture: Toward Situated-Embodied and Critical Accounts 3 Toward an Architecture of the Public Good 4 Radical Democracy and Spatial Practices Part II Targets of Engagement 5 Retracing the Emergence of a Human Settlements Approach: Designing in, From and With Contexts of Development 6 The United Nations and Self-Help Housing in the Tropics 7 Tracing the History of Socially Engaged Architecture: School Building as Development Aid in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa 8 The Opera Village Africa: Christoph Schlingensief and His Social Sculpture 9 Seeking Appropriate Methods: The Role of Public-Interest Design Advocacy in the High Himalaya Part III Structures of Engagement 10 Reconceiving Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century 11 The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Social Engagement via the Built Environment 12 Sale Ends Soon: Epistemological Alternatives to Flying Architects 13 Creating the Environment for Social Engagement: The Experience of Venezuela Part IV Subjects of Engagement 14 Housing for Spatial Justice: Building Alliances Between Women Architects and Users 15 Children’s Engagement in Design: Reflections From Research and Practice 16 The Garden of Liberation: Emptiness and Engagement at Suan Mokkh, Chaiya 17 The Darker Side of Social Engagement Part V Tectonics of Engagement 18 A Comparative History of Live Projects Within the United States and the UK: Key Characteristics and Contemporary Implications 19 The Do-It-Your(Self ): The Construction of Social Identity Through DIY Architecture and Urbanism 20 Building the Unseen: A Shift to a Socially Engaged Architecture Education Part VI Environmental Engagement 21 Umdenken Umschwenken: Environmental Engagement and Swiss Architecture 22 Material Participation and the Architecture of Domestic Autonomy 23 Salvage Salvation: Counterculture Trash as a Cultural Resource Part VII Mapping Engagement 24 Marginality, Urban Conflict and the Pursuit of Social Engagement in Latin American Cities 25 Understanding Public Interest Design: A Conceptual Taxonomy 26 Architecture Before 3.11: Unspoken Social Architecture During the Blank 25 Years of Japan 27 The Reciprocity Between Architects and Social Change: Taiwan Experience After the 1990s 28 Transforming the Spatial Legacies of Colonialism and Apartheid: Participatory Practice and Design Agency in Southern Africa Part VIII Engagement in Emergency 29 What We Can Learn From Refugees 30 Displacement, Labor and Incarceration: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Genealogy of Camps 31 Are Architects the Last People Needed in Disaster Reconstruction? 32 Architecture Without Borders? The Globalization of Humanitarian Architecture Culture Index