Best Practices - by Erin Besler & Ian Besler (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A thought-provoking guide to the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, <i>Best Practices</i> proposes a new way of thinking about neighborhoods, housing developments, streetscapes, and storefronts, not so much as places defined by building codes, dimensions, or geographic features, but as assemblages of ad hoc interventions and incidental ephemera.</p> </p><i>Best Practices</i> is an invitation to thoroughly reconsider issues of expertise, professionalism, power, ubiquity, defaults, communication environments, construction practices, and how these things confront architecture. The book proposes a broader and more all-encompassing set of interests and references for contemporary architecture and design discourse.</p> </p>Pairing photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations, <i>Best Practices</i> defines a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense. While not necessarily in opposition of those mechanisms, <i>Best Practices</i> asserts that interest, knowledge, and meaning are more often generated on the lines that divide such categories. The book advocates for a more thorough consideration of the unauthorized remodels, slap-dash handiwork, haphazard paint jobs, half-hearted do-it-yourself projects, cracked facades, contradictions, compromises, and coincidences.</p>
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