Atmosphere in Urban Design

A Workplace Ethnography of an Architecture Practice

Anette Stenslund

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English

Routledge
30 September 2022

Individual architects & architectural firms; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Human geography; The environment; Regional & area planning

Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provides understandings of how architectural practices are fuelled with atmosphere in various configurations throughout different design phases of selected projects for construction. From the outside architectural practices commonly appear well-ordered and carefully considered, established by proof and rationally justified. This book though poaches on architects’ preserves in order to draw attention to features of unpredictability and uncertainty within the design phases. By opening up into the ‘machinery room’ of urban designers, the goal is not to spoil the plaster saint cover of a ‘starchitect’ business, but to remind about the crucial value that pockets of doubt issuing questions rather than answers, open-mindedness instead of single-mindedness, play to the processes of design production and creativity. The book identifies these pockets as atmospheres enveloping the architectural practice.

By: Anette Stenslund
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781032247090
ISBN 10: 1032247096
Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 30 September 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anette Stenslund is an assistant professor at Southern University of Denmark. She was working as a post.doc. at Roskilde University, Denmark, while this book was written.