Architecture In Words

Author : Louise Pelletier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134159284

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Architecture in Words by Louise Pelletier Pdf

What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity. Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise Pelletier examines how architecture developed to express political and social intent. Applying this to the modern day, Pelletier considers how architects can learn from these eighteenth century attitudes in order to restore architecture's communicative dimension. Through an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the beginning of modernity, Louise Pelletier encourages today's architects to consider the political and linguistic implications of their tools. Combining theory, historical studies and research, Architecture in Words will provoke thought and enrich the work of any architect.

Author : Adrian Forty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500284709

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Words and Buildings by Adrian Forty Pdf

Available again, a wholly original study of the complex relationship between architecture and language that has changed and enriched the way we think and talk about architecture.The words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar they direct the ways we think of and live with buildings. This groundbreaking book is the first thorough examination of the complex relationship between architecture and language as intricate social practices. Six rigorously argued chapters investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, masculine and feminine architecture, language metaphors, science in architecture, and the social properties of architecture. There follows a vocabulary of key words such as Character, Form, History and Space, locating each words modern meaning within an historical and theoretical framework, and setting out clearly its development and relevance for architects, historians, philosophers, critics and the users of the buildings themselves. Architects should be made to read Words and Buildings Architecture Today Unusually clear and accessible Students of all kinds will love this book The Architectural Review A forceful, clear and sophisticated exposition of the role of conceptual thought in architectural discourse The Architects Journal

Author : Gert Wingårdh,Rasmus Wærn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034610575

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Crucial Words by Gert Wingårdh,Rasmus Wærn Pdf

The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and singular and partly global and universal. Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. What are the pivotal themes? Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden’s most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists such as Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, and Wilfried Wang. A special highlight is the text by Nobel laureate Ohran Pamuk. Die Voraussetzungen, unter welchen heutige Architektur entsteht, sind teils lokal und einmalig bedingt, teils sind sie von globaler und allgemeingültiger Natur. Zeitgenössische Architektur verstehen heisst, all diese Aspekte verstehen. Welches sind dabei die entscheidenden Themen? Gert Wingårdh und Rasmus Wærn, Schwedens aktivster Architekt beziehungsweise bekanntester Architekturkritiker, haben sich diese Frage gestellt und eine kritische Auswahl von rund 50 Begriffen getroffen, etwa Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, Wheelchair. Dadurch ist ein ganz spezielles, witzig illustriertes Begriffs-Wörterbuch entstanden, mit Originalbeiträgen von so interessanten Protagonisten wie etwa Denise Scott Brown, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, Wilfried Wang; ein besonderes Highlight ist der Text von Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk.

Author : Louise Pelletier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134159291

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Architecture in Words by Louise Pelletier Pdf

This innovative title provides an in-depth interdisciplinary study of the influence of theatre and fiction in defining character in eighteenth century architecture, pushing current architects to rediscover the communicative aspects of their work.

Author : GODED RAMBAUD Margarita ,IBÁÑEZ MORENO Ana ,HOSTE Veronique ,MATTENS Sil ,DE CONINCK Peter
Publisher : Editorial UNED
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9788436270228

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ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF WORDS. APPLICATIONS OF MEANING STUDIES by GODED RAMBAUD Margarita ,IBÁÑEZ MORENO Ana ,HOSTE Veronique ,MATTENS Sil ,DE CONINCK Peter Pdf

In light of today’s extensive use of digital communication, this volume focuses on how to understand and manage the various types of linguistically-based products that facilitate the use and extraction of information. Including conceptual and terminological databases, digital dictionaries, thesauri, language corpora, and ontologies, they all contribute to the development and improvement of language industries, such as those devoted to automatic translation, knowledge management, knowledge retrieval, linguistic data analysis, and so on. As the theoretical background underlying these applications is outlined in detail in the earlier chapters of the book, the reader is able to establish the necessary links between the various but related kinds of linguistic –and, in particular, semantic– applications. A general review of several theories and linguistic models that influence the practical application of Meaning studies to the new technologies is also included. This book is aimed at students and researchers of Linguistics, as well as those with a basic knowledge of Linguistics and Semantics who are interested in the on-going development of the handling of meaning and its practical usage

Author : Max Bill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215374039

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Form, Function, Beauty by Max Bill Pdf

Selected writings of Max Bill - this collection makes many of his key texts available in English for the first time.

Author : Deborah Cameron,Thomas A. Markus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134763450

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The Words Between the Spaces by Deborah Cameron,Thomas A. Markus Pdf

Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate and response.

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : Architecture Words
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907896325

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Flash in the Pan by Sylvia Lavin Pdf

Temporary: The temporary contemporary; Plasticity at work; What good is a bad object?; What colour is now?: Vanishing point.

Author : Bernard Cache
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1902902882

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Projectiles by Bernard Cache Pdf

Bernard Cache is the principal of the Paris-based practice Objectile and a noted theorist of geometry and computational ontology. This collection of ten essays brings together a number of key texts by Cache.

Author : Nicolete Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006742202

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Lettering on Buildings by Nicolete Gray Pdf

Author : Alessandra Ponte
Publisher : Architecture Words
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907896171

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The House of Light and Entropy by Alessandra Ponte Pdf

Formerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and perception of waste and wasteland during the twentieth century; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introductory essay, 'The Map and the Territory', written specifically for this volume.

Author : Wes Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040330196

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Instrumental Form: by Wes Jones Pdf

Wes Jones has defined a new industrial aesthetic for the 21st century.

Author : Adrian Forty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1319807237

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Words and Buildings by Adrian Forty Pdf

Author : Thomas Harris (F.R.I.B.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590464287

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Victorian architecture: a few words to show that a national architecture is attainable by Thomas Harris (F.R.I.B.A.) Pdf

Author : Toyoo Itō
Publisher : Architecture Words
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1902902904

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Tarzans in the Media Forest by Toyoo Itō Pdf

A collection of architectural writings by the prominent Japanese architect Toyo Ito, covering over 30 years of writing.