The Uses of Decoration
Essays in the Architectural Everyday
Malcolm Miles

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Author(s)

Malcolm Miles

Publication

Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Scope

256 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.

ISBN

0471489638

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Running through the book is a concern for the everyday, the seemingly small and insignificant ways in which people occupy the built environment. People possess an ability to organise their lives through the production of space ; therefore, the book argues, the expertise of dwellers on dwelling is of as much importance in shaping the futures of cities as that of designers on design

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Keywords

urban planning , architecture theory , decoration , ecology , autarky , ecological design , counter culture , sustainist architecture , bottom up city

Location

Cabinet 15 - 4: Architectuur en Kunst

Remarks

Incl. notes, bibliographical references and Index.