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- Making Byker
- Abstract
- James Longfield’s practice is inspired by the ‘amateur’
activities of Erskine’s team at the Byker redevelopment in
Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s, stepping outside the
architectural profession to explore the latent potential within
personal hobby activity, for intervening in the city. Through
a project focused on Byker’s hobby rooms, he advocates
a mode of practice situated within the post-occupancy
conditions of inhabitation, operating in the realm of the user,
and engaging with architecture as an ongoing process of
adaption, (mis)use, management and maintenance, capable
of supporting the engagement of users through interrelated
acts of spatial and social ‘poesis’.
- Citation
- Longfield, J. (2016). Making Byker. Social Poetics . The Architecture of Use and Appropriation, OASE, (96), 58–61. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/96/MakingByker
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- June 2016
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