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Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : London : Barrie & Rockliff the Cresset P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meaning in Architecture written by Charles Jencks and published by London : Barrie & Rockliff the Cresset P. This book was released on 1970 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack L. Nasar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429160
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Environmental Aesthetics written by Jack L. Nasar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.
Author : Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Meaning in Western Architecture written by Christian Norberg-Schulz and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191053856
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture written by James Stevens Curl and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.
Author : Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Architecture written by Christian Norberg-Schulz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472453018
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of Modern Architecture written by Dr Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. It proposes that Modern architecture is too diverse to be reduced to a few common formal or ornamental features. Instead, by relying on the viewer’s innate psycho-physiological perceptive abilities, the sensual and intuitive understandings of composition, form, and space are emphasized.
Author : Tamara Metz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000505995
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Building Meaning written by Tamara Metz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book focuses on the relationship and interdependence between design, theory, and history for an innovative and holistic studio approach. Rather than suggest a singular narrative, this book draws from a diverse range of thinkers and designers to highlight the many interpretations of key architectural concepts, and provides readers with the context essential for developing their own approaches to any design problem. Building Meaning is organized to reflect the typical studio process, with stand-alone chapters that provide flexibility for use at any stage of design. The ideal book for beginning and intermediate architecture students, it gives specific methods to apply in the studio to make the most of the design process, as well as focused exercises to creatively explore each concept presented. Illustrated with more than 250 color images, it enables readers to engage and understand critically the genesis of architectural ideas and their role in our social and cultural experience.
Author : George L. Hersey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262580892
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture written by George L. Hersey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing this poetry - the tropes founded on the Greek terms for ornamental detail - he reconstructs a classical theory about the origin and meaning of the orders, one that links them to ancient sacrificial ritual and myth.
Author : Lineu Castello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317063848
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Meaning of Place written by Lineu Castello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of newly 'invented' places, such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, necessitates a redefinition of the concept of 'place' from an architectural perspective. In this interdisciplinary work, these invented places are categorized according to the different phenomenological experiences they are able to provide. The book explores how such 'cloning spaces' use placemaking and placemarketing in attempt to replicate the characteristics found in urban spaces traditionally viewed as successful, and how these places can affect society's environmental perception. A range of international empirical studies illustrates how such invented places can be perceived as legitimate urban spaces, and contribute towards the quality of life in today's cities.
Author : Robin Francis Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521469814
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis written by Robin Francis Rhodes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the several buildings making up the Acropolis as a group, or narrative.
Author : Sophia Psarra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134288867
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Narrative written by Sophia Psarra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used and perceived. This intriguing book explores the ways in which these three dimensions interact in the design and life of buildings.
Author : Anne Griswold Tyng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780884541219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Anne Tyng written by Anne Griswold Tyng and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry presents the sculptural works of the visionary architect, theorist, and pioneer of habitable space-frame architecture. After working closely with Louis Kahn and influencing many of his major works, Tyng went on to independently conduct a life-long study of advanced geometry, mathematical forms, and their application to built forms in a range of scales. The 2011 exhibition, presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia and Graham Foundation in Chicago, featured room-size models of five platonic solids created in collaboration with architect Srdjan Weiss. Project Projects designed a catalogue with documentation from both installations, in addition to supplementary materials, including drawings, plans, models, and an illustrated timeline of Tyng's significant life and work.
Author : Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528649
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Attunement written by Alberto Perez-Gomez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities. Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding. Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Pérez-Gómez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions. Pérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of Stimmung—attunement—and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture—the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how Stimmung might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement.
Author : Sarah Robinson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026253360X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Mind in Architecture written by Sarah Robinson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. This expanded understanding can help architects design buildings that support both mind and body. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and neuroscience can learn from each other. They offer historical context, examine the implications for current architectural practice and education, and imagine a neuroscientifically informed architecture of the future. Architecture is late in discovering the richness of neuroscientific research. As scientists were finding evidence for the bodily basis of mind and meaning, architecture was caught up in convoluted cerebral games that denied emotional and bodily reality altogether. This volume maps the extraordinary opportunity that engagement with cutting-edge neuroscience offers present-day architects. Contributors Thomas D. Albright, Michael Arbib, John Paul Eberhard, Melissa Farling, Vittorio Gallese, Alessandro Gattara, Mark L. Johnson, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Iain McGilchrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Sarah Robinson
Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871569612
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Understanding Architecture written by Leland M. Roth and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of western architecture is divided into two parts. The first deals with the basic properties of architecture, examining a building's structure and aesthetic appeal. The second is a chronological survey of western architectural development from prehistoric times to the present.
Author : Donald Preziosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110808676
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Language, and Meaning written by Donald Preziosi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136804595
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens written by Marc Treib and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the professional a rich source of ideas about the designed landscape, what these mean to us and how they acquired that significance. Key essays from landscape architects are presented with the authors’ current reflections.
