Architext Series

Name: Architext Series
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Architecture and the Experience Economy

By: Brian Lonsway

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Hardcover | 20 February 2009 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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24.6 x 17.4 x 1.8

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Exploring architecture's role in the spatial construction of themed experience design, this book provides a new architectural theoretical framework for its social interpretation.

Using cognitive mapping, entertainment capacity design, leisure strategy planning and other techniques this text provides a unique presentation of the detailed mechanisms of spatial control inherent in their architectural reification.

By creatively - and sometimes playfully - integrating ethnographic, historical and semiotic methods, this book unravels the development of what is perhaps one of the most complex and subtly advancing contemporary tools of spatial control.

A new theoretical framework for reading contemporary architecture is offered here and alternative inquiries are encouraged into the contemporary social politics of spatial production.

Industry Reviews

'Making Leisure Work is a work of uncommon seriousness and impeccable scholarship. Refracting Pine and Gilmore's The Experience Economy through the lens of Certeau's conceptualization of everyday spatial production, Brian Lonsway makes a convincing case for elevating architectural theory to a central place in interpreting themed environments and experiences. Highly recommended for graduate and upper level undergraduate seminars in architecture, consumer studies, cultural anthropology, leisure studies and urban sociology.' - John Hannigan, University of Toronto (Author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis)

'Brian Lonsway has created a welcomed addition to the literature on the politics of space and meaning. He maps out a range of issues in a way that challenges traditional interpretations of themed architecture while providing an important critical framework for engaging the built environment.' - Cities, Volume 26, 2009

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