{"product_id":"campsite-architectures-of-duration-and-place-voices-of-the-south-9780807133231","title":"Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place (Voices of the South)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamping is perhaps the quintessential American activity. We camp to escape  to retreat  to \"find\" ourselves. The camp serves as a home-away-from-home where we might rethink a deliberate life. We also camp to find a new collective space where family and society converge. Many of us attended summer camps  and the legacies of these childhood havens form part of American culture. In Campsite  Charlie Hailey provides a highly original and artfully composed interpretation of the cultural significance and inherently paradoxical nature of camps and camping in contemporary American society. Offering a new understanding of the complex relationship between place  time  and architecture in an increasingly mobile culture  Hailey explores campsites as places that necessitate a unique combination of contrasting qualities  such as locality and foreignness  mobility and fixity  temporality and permanence  and public domesticity. Camping methods reflect the rigid flexibility of the process: leaving home  arriving at a site  clearing an area  making and then finally breaking camp. The phases of this sequence are both separate and indistinct. To understand this paradox  Hailey emphasizes the role of process. He constructs a philosophical framework to elucidate the \"placefulness\" -- or sense of place -- of such temporary constructions and provides alternative understandings of how we think of the home and of public versus private dwelling spaces.Historically  camps have been used as places for scouting out future towns  for clearing provisional spaces  and for making semipermanent homes-away-from-home. To understand how \"cultures of camping\" develop and accommodate this dynamic mix of permanence and flexibility  Hailey looks at three basic qualities of the camp: as a site for place-making  as a populist precursor for modern built environments  and as a \"method.\" Haileys creative and philosophical approach to camps and camping allows him to construct links between such diverse projects as the \"philosophers camps\" of the mid-nineteenth century  the idiosyncratic camping clubs that arose with the automobile culture in the early 1920s  and more recent uses of campsites as temporary housing for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.In Campsite  Hailey makes a singular and significant contribution to current studies of place and vernacular architecture while also reconfiguring methods of research in cultural studies  architectural theory  and geography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45277027074101,"sku":"ByrdShop_080713323X","price":75.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807133231.jpg?v=1780615472","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/campsite-architectures-of-duration-and-place-voices-of-the-south-9780807133231","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}