Teaching and Designing in Detroit: Ten Women on Pedagogy and Practice (Routledge Research in Architecture)

Synopsis

This book provides a compelling and insightful portrait of ten female architects, artists, and designers who explored unique approaches to teaching, practice, and research in the postindustrial city of Detroit. These women explored the phenomenon of a new “ecological urbanism” through their own work in art, architecture, design, planning, landscape architecture, and installation as well as the work of their students. Teaching and Designing in Detroit provides an eighteen-year snapshot of this work, how it affected the women’s practice, how they influenced student relationships to design and community development, and how their visions are now being carried out in Detroit. This book is organized into sections that group stories according to their focus on practice, pedagogy, and community engagement. Included in the book is a foreword by Leslie Kanes Weisman, the only female architecture professor at the University of Detroit Mercy in the 1970s, and an afterword by Sharon Egretta Sutton reflecting on how working and practicing in Detroit foreshadowed the future vision now being carried out in the rebounding city of Detroit. An intriguing read for students and professionals, this book will illustrate how these lessons learned can be applied by universities and communities in other postindustrial cities.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000764604

Related ISBNs:

9780429290596, 9780367259327, 9780367259327

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/28/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Stephen Vogel and Libby Balter Blume

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Stephen Vogel

Edited by:

Libby Balter Blume