Architectural scripts
Construction Procurement Within the User Worlds of Building Events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Gottschling (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 626-646 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2017.1296178 |
| OpenAlex | W2592357784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 37 |
The concept of the 'building event' has been central within recent geographies of architecture, marshalled against the assumption that buildings are stable or textual. Buildings, in these studies, emerge out of contingent relations among various configurations of human and non-human actors. Yet it is possible, other studies suggest, that this focus on the 'building' as the centre of the 'building event' has overlooked long-standing historical processes that are only visible if we consider aspects of contemporary construction industries. This study examines the relation between building events and construction industries from the point of view of one 'big thing' that has received little explicit attention from geographers: the procurement route and its associated selection procedures for architects and contractors. 'Big things' that circulate throughout the construction industry, procurement routes are organised around an understanding of building as a process that is nevertheless static and object-like. I examine engagements between procurement routes and architects through interviews, document analysis and participant observation. I suggest that procurement routes are additional actors within 'building events', resembling the actor-network theoretical notion of the 'script' while, unlike the script, anticipating their own de-scription. I conclude by pointing to opportunities for geographies of architectural scripts
Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Business · Event (particle physics · Object (grammar · Process (computing · Procurement · Relation (database · Scripting language · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · History · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urban Planning and Governance · Architecture · Artificial Intelligence · Marketing
Shaping technology/building society
Towards a critical geography of architecture
Reassembling the Social
Forms, places and processes
'A Tall Storey … but, a Fact Just the Same'
Regions, Networks and Fluids
Building an idea
Becoming big things
Entangled agencies, material networks and repair in a building assemblage
Living on a building site
Technical frames of affect
Architectural movements, utopian moments
More on ‘big things
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence
Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation
Geographies of Architecture
Doing Building Work
Installing Telecare, Installing Users
Between Need and Desire
Materializing Morality
Configuring the User as Everybody
Technological Dramas
Cultural Politics in Action
Spatial agency and practising architecture beyond buildings
A 'building event' of fear
Claiming events of school (re)design
Dramaturgies of dissent
The living building
Practising architectures
Danger building site-keep out
A geography of big things
Do-it-yourself or do-it-with? The regenerative life skills of off-grid home builders
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |