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This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms ARCHITECTURAL AGENTS This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms ARCHITECTURAL AGENTS The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings A n n a b e l Ja n e Wh a r t on U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I N N E S O T A P R E S S M I N N E A P O L I S • L O N D O N This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges fnancial assistance for the publication of this book from the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University. All photographs and illustrations are by the author, unless credited otherwise. Copyright 2015 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401– 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wharton, Annabel Jane. Architectural agents : the delusional, abusive, addictive lives of buildings / Annabel Jane Wharton. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8166-9338-2 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-9339-9 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Architecture. 2. Architecture—Human factors. I. Title. NA2540.W475 2015 720.1—dc23 2014032695 Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Dedicated to Te s s a A n n a b e l a n d Ve s p e r J a m e s R a m s d e l l , who animate every space that they occupy This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Content s Acknowledgments ix Introduction Architectural Agency xiii PART I. DEATH 1 Murder 3 2 Spoils 31 PART II. DISEASE 3 Amnesia 59 4 Urban Toxicity 85 PART III. ADDICTION 5 Gambling 119 6 Digital Play 151 Conclusion Buildings/Things, Bodies/Texts, History/Theory 185 Notes 21 Bibliography 253 Index 283 This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:43 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:43 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments Everywhere I worked on this book I benefted enormously from the knowledge and generosity of those who lived there. Most providentially at home, as has been the case for nearly a quarter of a century, my partner, Professor Kalman Bland, read and reread what I wrote, always with remarkable equanimity and new insight. Abroad, colleagues and friends shaped my experiences of the local and, consequently, my thoughts on it. This is particularly true of Jerusalem. Dear friends Dr. Rajai Dajani and Fadwa Dajani, Rami Dajani, and Hidaya Dajani introduced me to remarkable places in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Dr. Yoram Tsafrir provided me the experiences of recent archaeological undertakings and small Palestinian eateries. Dr. Sy Gitin, director of the Albright Institute, Dr. Khader Salameh, director of the Islamic Museum, and Dr. Thomas Neu, Middle East Representative of American Near East Refugee Aid, ofered me access to otherwise impenetrable spaces. I very much appreciated my frank discussions with James S. Snyder, the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum. I also received collegial help from Avner Amiri, architect and restoration expert, with whom I collaborated in a study of the fabric of the American Colony in Jerusalem; Paul Vester, president of the board of direc- tors of the American Colony; Michael Schwartz, current overseeing architect of the American Colony Hotel; and the late Val Vester, who generously shared with me both memories and a prepublication manuscript of her “Family Album: A Brief History of the American Colony.” I am also indebted to Professor Oleg Grabar who in Princeton revealed to me some of the secrets of institutions in Jerusalem. I am very grateful to the archivists who have made the work that I did in their archives pleasurable as well as productive: Lee Hiltzik, archivist at the Rockefeller Archives in Tarrytown, New York; Michael K. Carter, the head of the Cloisters Library and Archive; the staf of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Archive who ix This content downloaded from 202.112.119.215 on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:54:44 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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