There have been some developments in the nature of collaboration between artists and architects and in the approaches taken by artists making work intended for public spaces. This book explores the proliferation of pioneering work by both artists and architects that seeks to blur traditional boundaries between the two fields.
Jane Rendell is Reader in Architecture and Art and Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her books include The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London and, as co-editor, Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories and The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space.
CONTEMPORARY 'Rendell attends to the task with excellent clarity and the diligence characteristic of a historian and a critic set on grouping together phenomena and teasing out from these groupings common ground and distinctions from which new conceptual frameworks can begin to emerge...her argument is well structured and presented eloquently in a way that at once reframes the debate for the weathered reader while remaining accessible to those who are fresh for it' ARCHITECTURE TODAY Nothing quotable. BD (BUILDING DESIGN) Nothing quotable.
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