Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135014018
Content:
Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to ask you to radically rethink the relationship between body and design
Note:
Cover -- rethinking aesthetics: the role of body in design -- Copyright -- contents -- list of image credits -- list of contributors -- acknowledgements -- Introduction rethinking aesthetics: the role of body in design -- PART ONE role of aesthetic response in everyday life -- 1 everyday aesthetics of embodiment -- 2 dewey's big idea for aesthetics -- 3 attention and imaginative engagement in marcel breuer's atlanta public library -- 4 from buildings to architecture: construing nelson goodman's aesthetics -- 5 the extended self: tacit knowing and place-identity -- PART TWO modes of aesthetic response: tacit perception and somatic consciousness -- 6 somatics and aesthetics: the role of body in design -- 7 the moral dimension of japanese aesthetics -- 8 traditional knowledge for contemporary uses: an analysis of everyday practices of self-help in architecture -- 9 environmental embodiment, merleau-ponty, and bill hillier's theory of space syntax: toward a phenomenology of people-in-place -- 10 mental and existential ecology -- index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bhatt, Ritu Rethinking Aesthetics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415534741
Language:
English
Keywords:
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