Architectural Judgment

Author : Samir Younes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317027737

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The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment by Samir Younes Pdf

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city. When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which can be used for this evaluation causes many contentious and discordant arguments. Proposing that the increase in number and intensity of such arguments threatens to destabilize the very grounds upon which judgment is supposed to rest, this book examines architectural judgment in its historical, cultural, political, and psychological dimensions and their convergence on that most expressive part of architecture, namely: architectural character. It stresses the value of reasoned judgment in justifying architectural form -a judgment based on three sets of criteria: those criteria that are external to architecture, those that are internal to architecture, and those that pertain to the psychology of the architect as image-maker. External criteria include, philosophies of history or theories of modernity; internal criteria include architectural character and architectural composition; while the psychological criteria pertain to 'mimetic rivalry', or rivaling desires for the same architectural forms. Yet, although architectural conflicts can adversely influence judgment, they can at the same time, contribute to the advancement of architectural culture.

Author : Steven A. Moore,Barbara B. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135079871

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Questioning Architectural Judgment by Steven A. Moore,Barbara B. Wilson Pdf

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline—architecture, it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed, the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better, more efficient, or more stringent codes to guide place-making, but a matter of reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.

Author : Samir Younes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317027720

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The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment by Samir Younes Pdf

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city. When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which can be used for this evaluation causes many contentious and discordant arguments. Proposing that the increase in number and intensity of such arguments threatens to destabilize the very grounds upon which judgment is supposed to rest, this book examines architectural judgment in its historical, cultural, political, and psychological dimensions and their convergence on that most expressive part of architecture, namely: architectural character. It stresses the value of reasoned judgment in justifying architectural form -a judgment based on three sets of criteria: those criteria that are external to architecture, those that are internal to architecture, and those that pertain to the psychology of the architect as image-maker. External criteria include, philosophies of history or theories of modernity; internal criteria include architectural character and architectural composition; while the psychological criteria pertain to 'mimetic rivalry', or rivaling desires for the same architectural forms. Yet, although architectural conflicts can adversely influence judgment, they can at the same time, contribute to the advancement of architectural culture.

Author : Peter Collins
Publisher : McGill, Queen's University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0773501142

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Architectural Judgement by Peter Collins Pdf

Proposes using the intellectual techniques evolved by the legal profession to make architectural decisions.

Author : Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,Aaron T. Davis,Ashraf M. Salama,Andrea Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317580829

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Architecture Beyond Criticism by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,Aaron T. Davis,Ashraf M. Salama,Andrea Hardy Pdf

For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works. As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide, from environmental sustainability to social, cultural, and economic activism, this book examines the roles of perceived and measured quality in architecture. By exploring in tandem both subjective traditional architectural criticism and environmental design and performance evaluation and its objective evaluation criteria, the book argues that both methodologies and outcomes can achieve a comprehensive assessment of quality in architecture. Curated by a global editorial team, the book includes: Contributions from international architects and critics based in the UK, USA, Brazil, France, Qatar, Egypt, New Zealand, China, Japan and Germany Global case studies which illustrate both perspectives addressed by the book and comparative analyses of the findings A six part organization which includes introductions and conclusions from the editors, to help guide the reader and further illuminate the contributions. By presenting a systematic approach to assessing building performance, design professionals will learn how to improve building design and performance with major stakeholders in mind, especially end users/occupants.

Author : Timothy Hyde
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691243559

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Ugliness and Judgment by Timothy Hyde Pdf

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles’s opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness—including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry—have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state. Moving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role of aesthetic measurement in our world.

Author : Peter Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:471751448

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Architectural Judgment by Peter Collins Pdf

Author : James Gregory,Daniel J.R. Grey,Annika Bautz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351400695

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Judgment in the Victorian Age by James Gregory,Daniel J.R. Grey,Annika Bautz Pdf

This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.

Author : Carroll William Westfall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317178989

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Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order by Carroll William Westfall Pdf

This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative traces two models for the practice of architecture. One follows the ancient model in which the architect renders his service to serve the interests of others; it survives and is dominant in modernism. The other, first formulated in the fifteenth century by Leon Battista Alberti, has the architect use his talent in coordination with others to contribute to the common good of a republican civil order that seeks to protect its own liberty and that of its citizens. Palladio practiced this way, and so did Thomas Jefferson when he founded a uniquely American architecture, the counterpart to the nation’s founding. This narrative gives particular emphasis to the contrasting developments in architecture on the opposite sides of the English Channel. The book presents the value for clients and architects today and in the future of drawing on history and tradition. It stresses the importance, indeed, the urgency, of restoring traditional practices so that we can build just, beautiful, and sustainable cities and rural districts that will once again assist citizens in living not only abundantly but also well as they pursue their happiness.

Author : Scott Colman,Ron Witte
Publisher : Actar
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0989961206

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Judgment by Scott Colman,Ron Witte Pdf

Judgment is how architecture gets from A to B: how architecture is produced by architects and cultures, how it is received by critics and publics, and how it extends histories and forms futures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119546283

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Beauty Matters by Anonim Pdf

Beauty in architecture matters again. This issue of AD posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective – a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines. Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term 'post-digital' was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition. The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics. Contributors: Alisa Andrasek,Izaskun Chinchilla, Marjan Colletti, Peter Cook, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Winka Dubbeldam, David Garcia, Graham Harman, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Alan Powers, Gilles Retsin, Kristina Schinegger and Stefan Rutzinger, Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook and Semir Zeki. Featured architects: Archi-Tectonics, ecoLogicStudio, NaJa & deOstos, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, soma architecture, Studio Gang, John Wardle Architects and Tom Wiscombe Architecture.

Author : Jean-Pierre Chupin,Carmela Cucuzzella,Bechara Helal
Publisher : Potential Architecture Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780992131708

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Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Chupin,Carmela Cucuzzella,Bechara Helal Pdf

[Winner of the 2016 Bronze medal in Architecture, Independent Publisher Book Awards] This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world. These richly documented contributions revolve around a few questions that can be summarized in a two-fold critical interrogation: How can design competitions - these historical democratic devices, both praised and dreaded by designers - be considered laboratories for the production of environmental design quality, and, ultimately, for the renewing of culture and knowledge? Includes 340 illustrations, bibliographical references and index of over 200 cited competitions. Keywords: Architecture / International competitions / Architectural judgment / Design thinking / Digital archiving (databases) / Architectural publications / Architectural experimentation / Landscape architecture / Urban studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015007247987

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The Architectural Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015007566287

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The Inland Architect and News Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433084078801

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The Architect and Contract Reporter by Anonim Pdf