TY - BOOK ID - 50351754 TI - Speaking of buildings : oral history in architectural research AU - Gosseye, Janina AU - Stead, Naomi AU - Van der Plaat, Deborah PY - 2019 SN - 9781616897543 1616897546 PB - New York : Princeton Architectural Press, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - Oral history. KW - Histoire orale KW - Research. KW - Recherche KW - architecture [discipline] KW - architectural history KW - oral history [discipline] KW - Oral history KW - 373.67 KW - 72.01 KW - 72:37 Onderwijs/Onderzoek KW - History KW - Oral biography KW - Oral tradition KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Research KW - Architectuuronderzoek KW - Onderzoek (architectuur) KW - Architectuurtheorie KW - Architectuur (theorie) KW - Methodology KW - Design and construction KW - Communication orale KW - Architecture. KW - Historiographie KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - Enseignement de l'architecture KW - Théorie de l'architecture KW - Critique architecturale UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50351754 AB - By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. Speaking of Buildings offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people. ER -