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 everyday social attitudes and practices about people; objects and spaceargues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalitiesintroduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies ?and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enableasks how designing for everyday life – in all its diversity – can ?be better embedded within contemporary architecture as a disciplineoffers examples of what doing disability differently can mean for architectural theory; education and professional practiceaims to embed into architectural practice; attitudes and approaches that creatively and constructively refuse to perpetuate body norms or the resulting inequalities in access to; and support from; built space.Ultimately; this book suggests that re-addressing architecture and disability involves nothing less than re-thinking how to design for the everyday occupation of space more generally.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Okay ReadBy CrusaderIt was an okay true paranormal read; but like it says in its title "history"; that about sizes it up. Short and sweet history lesson of a haunted house in Wisconsin. Most of what was in the book had already been told on the television show "A Haunting"; which I had seen when it had aired. So; I didnt really learn anything new from the book. Only giving it 3 stars - there is no scare factor in this book and I was able to read it in one sitting.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Way too short for $20. Dragged toward the last ...By JCWay too short for $20. Dragged toward the last part of the book. I started skipping paragraphs because it got very repetitive and taking a point and rewording it 10 different ways.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I have leased my original blue prints to Summerwind for ...By Joshua ChairesI have leased my original blue prints to Summerwind for this book so everyone can see the architectural layouts of Summerwind. Just the main house in all its glory.
