Architecture and Progress: Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment (1)

By: Matt Hall and Mark Alan Blumberg

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Synopsis: This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy.For shapers of the world, finding ‘the solution’ is often a mark of progress that becomes embedded in culture, society, and history. Progress is ever-present. Through the exploration of diverse positions in history, theory, and practice, this book explores the potential utility of the progressively problematic rather than the natural tendency towards the progressively solved. Chapters draw on historic spaces, technological advancement, incorporation of the natural world, alterative production, and the consideration of human experience both sensory and psychological. Challenging the positive connotation of ‘progress’, the writings also explore reversing the notion of obstacle from disruptive anti-tool to obstacle of utilitarian method, a useful tool, pressing approach, and overarching value system.This will be interesting reading for upper-level students and scholars of Architecture, Urban Design, Philosophy, and Sociology.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 212 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040450604
Related ISBNs:: 9781040450581, 9781032767536, 9781003479932, 9781032767550
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/03/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Mark Alan Blumberg and Matt Hall
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mark Blumberg
Edited by:: Matthew Hall