Doing disability differently : an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life

Doing disability differently : an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life / Jos Boys.

This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability - and ability - as creative starting points for the whole design p...

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Main Author: Boys, Jos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Subjects:
Barrier-free design.
Architecture > Human factors.
Architecture and society.
barrier-free design.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture and society
Architecture > Human factors
Barrier-free design
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability - and ability - as creative starting points for the whole design process. It asks the intriguing question: can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde?To do this, Doing Disability Differently:explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our e.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781317693826
1317693825
1306824834
9781306824835
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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