Boys, Jos.

Doing disability differently : an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life / Jos Boys. - xiv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: why do disability differently? -- Starting from disability. Challenging commonsense -- Beyond accessibility -- Unraveling dis/ordinary occupancy -- Re-connecting architecture with dis/ability. Destablizing architecture? -- On feeling and beauty -- Bodies, buildings, devices and augmentation -- Doing architecture and dis/ability differently. Alternative mappings -- Strategies and tactics -- Re-thinking the normal.

9780415824934 (alk. paper) 9780415824958 (alk. paper)

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Barrier-free design.
Architecture--Human factors.
People with disabilities in art.
Architecture and society.

NA2545.A1 / B69 2014

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