Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience

Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with architecture — one that has been seldom explored in architectural history and theory.

'Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience' investigates that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history, from the 19th century to the present, to survey how boredom became a normalized component of the everyday, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of architecture, and how it serves to diagnose moments of crisis in the continuous transformations of the built environment.

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Cite: "Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience" 12 Mar 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/958416/boredom-architecture-and-spatial-experience> ISSN 0719-8884

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