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The Actions of Architecture: Constituting a New Sociology of Architectur

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Architecture, Materiality and Society

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The final chapter is composed as a dialogue between a sociologist of architecture and a science studies scholar as they discuss the opportunities and limitations of enriching the sociology of architecture with concepts, approaches and terms from science and technology studies (STS). The dialogue comprises two alternate parts: one is scientific in tone and elaborates at length the arguments that are the basis for our theses on the actions of architecture. Here, we trace how material objects are conceptualized in STS and focus on the question of how we can fruitfully integrate STS insights into a new sociology of architecture. The other part of the dialogue, formally emphasized by italics, is held in a more colloquial tone and connects the single elements of the scientific parts by summarizing and emphasizing their central conclusions.

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Müller, AL., Reichmann, W. (2015). The Actions of Architecture: Constituting a New Sociology of Architectur. In: Müller, AL., Reichmann, W. (eds) Architecture, Materiality and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461131_11

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