{"product_id":"buildingobject-9781350234000","title":"BuildingObject","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Ashby is an art and design historian based at Birkbeck, University of London.  She is the author of \u003ci\u003eModernism in Scandinavia \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2017) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eImagined Cosmopolis: Internationalism and Cultural Exchange, 1870s-1920s\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).Mark Crinson is Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eModern Architecture and the End of Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) and \u003ci\u003eRebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism \u003c\/i\u003e(I.B. Tauris, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Contributors  Foreword, \u003ci\u003eAdrian Forty (University College London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction, \u003ci\u003eMark Crinson and Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Grey Zones\u003c\/b\u003e  1. A Good Shelf: The Material Culture of Reading in Colonial India, \u003ci\u003eSwati Chattopadhyay (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   2. Power of Television in Modern Turkish Homes, \u003ci\u003eMeltem Ö. Gürel (Yasar University, Turkey)\u003c\/i\u003e   3. Bin, Bag, Box: The Architecture of Convenience, \u003ci\u003eLouisa Iarocci (University of Washington, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   4. Atmospheric Exchanges: Air-conditioning, Thermal Material Culture, and Public Housing in Singapore, \u003ci\u003eJiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore)\u003c\/i\u003e   5. Beyond Buildings and Objects: Reyner Banham’s Freeway Ecology, \u003ci\u003eRichard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e     \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Dissolved Distinctions\u003c\/b\u003e   6. Designing for a Nocturnal Banquet, Versailles 1674, \u003ci\u003ePanagiotis Doudesis (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   7. Printed Objects and Ready-Mades in the \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e (1834-38), \u003ci\u003eAnne Hultzsch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)\u003c\/i\u003e   8. Entangled Histories of Buildings and Furniture: Knoll International and the Production and Mediation of Modern Architecture in Post-war Belgium, \u003ci\u003eFredie Floré (KU Leuven, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e   9. Disaster Relief and ‘Universal Shelters’: Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976, \u003ci\u003eTania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland) and Lilian Sanchez-Moreno (University for the Creative Arts, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e     \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Uneasy Difference\u003c\/b\u003e  10. Regulation by Design: Reification and Building Regulations, \u003ci\u003eAlistair Cartwright (Independent Scholar, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   11. The Relational Object: Haus-Rucker-Co.’s Designs for Re-Shaping the Environment, \u003ci\u003eRoss K. Elfline (Carleton College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   12. The Stylistic End-games of Modernism: High Tech Design in Criticism and History, \u003ci\u003eJane Pavitt (Kingston University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   13. Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil, \u003ci\u003eLivia Rezende (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Tatiana Pinto (Independent Scholar, Sweden)\u003c\/i\u003e   Afterword, \u003ci\u003eBen Highmore (University of Sussex, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529219350871,"sku":"9781350234000","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350234000.jpg?v=1731874766","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/buildingobject-9781350234000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}