Sport and Architecture
Series: Frontiers of Sport;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 March 2017
- ISBN 9780415743662
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages146 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 65 Illustrations, black & white; 14 Illustrations, color; 65 Halftones, black & white; 14 Halftones, color 0
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Short description:
Sport and architecture are two of the social practices in contemporary life with the broadest impact on the world around us. This volume explores the history of sports architecture and examines the types of buildings and events that create sites where sport and architecture converge in particularly telling ways. By considering the importance of architectural form alongside key themes such as urban redevelopment, nationalism, social activism, identity, and global capitalism, this book represents a landmark study for anybody interested in the social and cultural significance of architecture or sport.
MoreLong description:
Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us. The role architecture plays in shaping buildings and societies has occupied historians for centuries. Likewise, the cultural, economic, and political importance of sport is the subject of sustained academic inquiry. When sport and architecture converge, as in the 2012 London Olympics or the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, then the impact of these two forms of social activity is redoubled.
This book presents a new and dynamic study of the complex relationship between sport and architecture. It explores the history of sport architecture and examines the buildings and events that create sites where sport and architecture converge in particularly telling ways. Its chapters discuss the following topics:
- sport architecture and urban redevelopment
- sport architecture and technology
- sport architecture and nationalism
- sport architecture as social activism
- sport architecture and global capitalism.
By considering the importance of architectural form alongside these key themes, this book represents a landmark study for anybody interested in the social and cultural significance of architecture or sport.
Flowers knows how to engage the reader with his refreshingly personal accounts, sharing insights into how, throughout his life, sport grounds have been important places of identity building.
Tobias Zuser, The Education University of Hong Kong More
Table of Contents:
1. Sport and Architecture: An Introduction
2. Stadia: Past and Present
3. Technology
4. Global Capitalism
5. Urban Redevelopment
6. Starchitects
7. Identity
8. Non-sporting Ends of Sport Architecture
9. Stadia Activism
10. Future Stadia: Exploding the Program
11. Conclusion
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