UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC316692
Format:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780816690985
Content:
In Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture, Lance LaVine shows that in architecture, as practiced and taught today, the technological aspect of the professionhow weight is distributed, how heat flow is regulated, and how light is permitted to enterhas bee
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The General Problem -- Part I: The Reconciliation of Mechanics and Meaning in Architectural Thought -- 1 A Technology of Habitation -- 2 Architecture's Loss of a Distinct Technological Voice -- 3 Mending the Rift: Twentieth-Century Attempts to Reconcile Mechanics and Meaning -- 4 The Map and the Territory -- Part II: Mechanics and Meaning in Four Houses -- 5 Finnish Log Farmhouse -- 6 Charles Moore House at Orinda -- 7 Wall House -- 8 Villa Savoye -- Conclusion: Metaphorical Technology -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Additional Edition:
Print version LaVine, Lance Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c1997 ISBN 9780816634774
Language:
English
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