Umfang:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135725884
Inhalt:
Introducing the notion of appreciating buildings as cultural artefacts, this book presents insightful readings by eminent writers which show the power of this approach. Reading architecture in this way can help architects to appreciate the contexts in which they operate when they design. This book introduces, outlines and elaborates on this and opens-up powerful insights for historians, critics and students
Anmerkung:
Cover -- READING ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE RESEARCHING BUILDINGS, SPACES AND DOCUMENTS -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Illustration credits -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Opening -- Chapter 1 Breathing walls -- Part one: Extraordinary buildings, divergent readings -- Chapter 2 An augury of collapse: Herzog and De Meuron's CaixaForum in Madrid -- Chapter 3 Fostering relations in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 4 Reading the site at Sverre Fehn's Hamar Museum -- Chapter 5 A hellish cloud and a very clear air: industry, nature and weather in early eighteenth-century England -- Part two: Familiar buildings, unfamiliar readings -- Chapter 6 Extension stories -- Chapter 7 Lounge space: the home, the city and the service area -- Chapter 8 The architecture of urban life: 67 rue des Meuniers -- Chapter 9 The setting and the social condenser: transitional objects in architecture and psychoanalysis -- Part three: Redolent details, insightful documents -- Chapter 10 Four lines -- Chapter 11 'God is in the details'/'The detail is moot': a meeting between Mies and Koolhass -- Chapter 12 Specifying transparency: from 'best seconds' to 'new glass performences' -- Chapter 13 Making plans: Alberti's ichnography as cultural artefact -- Chapter 14 How the mind meets architecture: what photography reveals -- Epilogue -- Chapter 15 An architectural good-life can be built, explained and taught only through storytelling -- Select bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Sharr, Adam Reading Architecture and Culture Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415601429
Sprache:
Englisch
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