Binding Space The Book As Spatial Practice

Author : Marian Macken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351266420

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Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice by Marian Macken Pdf

Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books in particular – that is, a book made as an original work of art, with an artist, designer or architect as author – have certain qualities and characteristics, quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality, the structure and objecthood of the book, and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way, the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived, constructed and read. In five main sections, Binding Space examines the relationships between the drawing, the building and the book. It proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice, one in which the book is cast as object, outcome, process and tool. Through the book, we read spatial practice anew.

Author : Federica Goffi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000550320

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The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models by Federica Goffi Pdf

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and their ownership, placement, and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings, this book fills a lacuna in current scholarship, questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. Including emerging, well-known, and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices, the thirty-five contributions define recent research in four key areas: drawing sites/sites of knowledge construction: drawing, office, construction site; the afterlife of drawings and models: archiving, collecting, displaying, and exhibiting; tools of making: architectural representations and their apparatus over time; and the ethical responsibilities of collecting and archiving: authorship, ownership, copyrights, and rights to copy. The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane, Superstudio, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wajiro Kon, Germán Samper Gnecco, A+PS, Mies van der Rohe, and Renzo Piano.

Author : Peter Merriman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000528565

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Space by Peter Merriman Pdf

Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography. The text examines the influence of geometry, arithmetic, natural philosophy, empiricism, and positivism to the development of spatial thinking, as well as focusing on the contributions of phenomenologists, existentialists, psychologists, Marxists, and post-structuralists to how we occupy, live, structure, and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied practices of diverse subjects, highlighting the contributions of feminists, queer theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality and more ‘lived’ human enactments and performances, this book highlights the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century. Space is possibly the key concept underpinning research in geography, as well as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Author : Aaron Paterson,Sarosh Mulla,Marian Macken
Publisher : CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780473562106

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Drawing Room by Aaron Paterson,Sarosh Mulla,Marian Macken Pdf

Drawing Room explores architecture as a consequence of its media in the post-digital realm in which the novelty of digital drawing has been superseded by the creative potential found in diverse methods of drawing — spanning the analogue to the virtual. Drawing Room suggests speculative drawing practices that sit beside architectural professional practice, yet feed into it, highlighting the rapidly changing way architects draw and visualise their designs.

Author : Melanie Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351140027

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Spatial Practices by Melanie Dodd Pdf

This book explores ‘spatial practices’, a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the field of spatial practices allows people to reconnect with their own sense of agency through engagement in space and place, exploring and prototyping alternative futures in the here and now. The 24 chapters contain essays, visual essays and interviews, featuring contributions from an international set of experimental practitioners including Jeanne van Heeswijk (Netherlands), Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, San Diego), Hector (USA), The Decorators (London) and OOZE (Netherlands). Beautifully designed with full colour illustrations, Spatial Practices advances dialogue and collaboration between academics and practitioners and is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals in architecture, urban planning and urban policy.

Author : Sophia Psarra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351363327

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The Production Sites of Architecture by Sophia Psarra Pdf

The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our understanding of architectural knowledge? Featuring essays from an international range of scholars, the book accepts that everything about the production of architecture has social significance. It focuses on two areas: firstly, relationships of spatial configuration, form, order and classification; secondly, the interaction of architecture and these notions with other areas of knowledge, such as literature, inscriptions, interpretations, and theories of classification, ordering and invention. Moving beyond perspectives which divide architecture into either an aesthetic or practical art, the authors show how buildings are informed by intersections between site and content, space and idea, thought and materiality, architecture and imagination. Presenting illustrated case studies of works by architects and artists including Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, OMA, Koen Deprez and John Soane, The Production Sites of Architecture makes a major contribution to our understanding of architectural theory.

Author : Chris Brisbin,Myra Thiessen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317225935

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The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design by Chris Brisbin,Myra Thiessen Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art, architecture, and design. Professional criticism is a vital part of understanding the cultural significance of designed objects and environments that we engage with on a daily basis, yet there is evidence to show that this practice is changing. This edited volume investigates how practitioners, researchers, educators, and professionals engage with, think about, and value the practice of critique. With contributions from a multi-disciplinary authorship from nine countries - the UK, USA, Australia, India, Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Belgium, and Denmark - this companion provides a wide range of leading perspectives evaluating the landscape of criticality and how it is being shaped by technological and social advances. Illustrated with over 60 black and white images and structured into five sections, The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design is a comprehensive volume for researchers, educators, and students exploring the changing role of criticism through interdisciplinary perspectives.

Author : Peter Blundell Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781472577498

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Architecture and Ritual by Peter Blundell Jones Pdf

Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.

Author : Bryan Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136389320

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Language of Space by Bryan Lawson Pdf

This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space. Bryan Lawson provides an ideal introduction to the topic, breaking down the complex and abstract terms used by many design theoreticians when writing about architectural space. Instead, our everyday knowledge is reintroduced to the language of design. Design values of 'space' are challenged and informed to stimulate a new theoretical and practical approach to design. This book views architectural and urban spaces as psychological, social and partly cultural phenomena. They accommodate, separate, structure, facilitate, heighten and even celebrate human spatial behaviour.

Author : Steven Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:83547250

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Space and Anti-space by Steven Peterson Pdf

Author : Ulrich Exner
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035622843

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Basics Spatial Design by Ulrich Exner Pdf

Architecture does not consist of two-dimensional drawings – it is built space. The volume Basics Spatial Design focuses on what underlies the perception and design of space and helps to create a deep understanding of the conscious design of three-dimensional relationships. It presents possibilities for spatial design clearly and in a manner that is easily adaptable for one’s own work. Topics: What is space? How do I perceive space? Design parameters – elements of space Repertoire – using the tools

Author : Debra Benita Shaw,Maggie Humm
Publisher : Radical Cultural Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Public spaces
ISBN : 178348151X

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Radical Space by Debra Benita Shaw,Maggie Humm Pdf

A multidisciplinary collection which brings together cutting edge research about the cultural politics of space.

Author : Bernard Leupen
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9064505985

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Frame and Generic Space by Bernard Leupen Pdf

The average lifespan of a house is somewhere around 100 years. During that time it will see many mutations in household composition and related spatial rituals. Designers are therefore faced with the task of giving form to something that is constantly subject to change. Many studies into flexibility focus on the changeable, on movable partitions and variation in the internal layout. The present study takes not the changeable but the permanent as its departure-point. The permanent--i.e. the more durable component of the house or building--constitutes the frame within which change can take place, while the frame defines the generic space, the space in which change can occur.

Author : Alban Janson,Florian Tigges
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034608923

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Fundamental Concepts of Architecture by Alban Janson,Florian Tigges Pdf

Architecture is an experience – with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture. This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like “roof,” “base,” “wall,” and “axis” or “proportion”. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum. From “context,” through “guidance,” “readability,” “patina,” “spatial structure,” “symmetry” and “tectonics,” to “width” (and “narrowness”) or “window,” the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail.

Author : Andri Gerber,Ulrich Götz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783839448021

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Architectonics of Game Spaces by Andri Gerber,Ulrich Götz Pdf

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places - over here, in »reality«? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships such practices have established with the design of architecture. Due to their often simulatory nature, games reveal constructions of reality while positively impacting spatial ability and allowing for alternative avenues to complex topics and processes of negotiation. Granting insight into the merging of the design of real and virtual environments, this volume offers an invaluable platform for further debate.