Umfang:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135749682
Serie:
Critiques Series
Inhalt:
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. This book considers what is culturally specific about scale? And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or by hyper-reality? With a visual essay in each section, this book is for students, academics and practitioners in architecture and architectural theory as well as of interest to students in a range of other disciplines including art history and theory, geography, anthropology and landscape architecture
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Scale Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration credits -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Excursus 1: The scale of the detail -- Scale before the twentieth century -- The role of small-scale images by Wenceslaus Hollar: the rebuilding of London in the late seventeenth century -- Mildendo and Masdar: a tale of two cities -- 'Examining the knots . . . counting the bricks': John Ruskin's innocent eye -- The worm's eye as a measure of man: Choisy's development of axonometry in architectural representation -- Excursus 2: Scale in recent projects by MVRDV -- Scale in art and perception -- Colour scales -- Scales of interaction: aligning the qualitative with the quantitative in music and architecture -- Architectural scale: psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes -- Sublime indifference -- Measuring up: measurement pieces and the redefinition of scale in conceptual art -- Scaling haptics - haptic scaling: studying scale and scaling in the haptic design process of two architects who lost their sight -- Scale adjustment in architecture and music -- Excursus 3: Complex ordinariness in Oxford: 'House after Two Years of Living' -- Scale in the twentieth century and beyond -- Ethos pathos logos: architects and their chairs -- 'Halfway between the electron and the universe': Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia -- Little boxes -- Scale and identity in the housing projects of Coderch -- Politics and the deliquescence of scale: the Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin -- Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Adler, Gerald Scale Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415687119
Sprache:
Englisch
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