Meaning And Aesthetics In Architecture

Author : self-published
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780984727100

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Every thing we encounter has for us meaning. It is what we infer as a particular understanding of the thing. But we also provide meaning by how we live and what we produce. This implies process and result, also in architecture. Decision making is involved with judgments on theoretical and practical issues. The activities are driven by factors of purpose, context and realization. This text proceeds from explaining philosophical foundations of meaning to interpreting physical designs of architecture. At the center is design thinking which has rational and emotional components, making it profoundly aesthetic. The concept of design narratives is developed as the dialog between the content and the form of projects. The text is profusely supported by illustrations in color and hyperlinked with extensive references.

Author : Kurt Brandle
Publisher : Kurt Brandle
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0984727159

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Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture by Kurt Brandle Pdf

Every thing we encounter has for us more or less meaning. It is what we infer as a particular understanding of the thing. But we also provide meaning by how we live and by what we produce. In architecture we experience this duality as deriving impressions from it and as giving expressions to it. This implies that meaning in architecture, like in all other fields, is process and result. Decision making is involved with judgments based on theoretical and practical issues. The activities are driven by the design factors of purpose, context and realization. This text proceeds from explaining philosophical foundations of meaning to interpreting physical designs of architecture. At the center of discussion is design thinking which has rational and emotional components, making it profoundly aesthetic. The concept of design narratives is developed as the dialog between the content and the form of projects. The text is profusely supported by illustrations in color and by extensive references. Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture is a book for all who are interested to understand our built environments.

Author : Jack L. Nasar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521429161

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Environmental Aesthetics by Jack L. Nasar Pdf

How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.

Author : Stephen Grabow,Kent Spreckelmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135016456

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The Architecture of Use by Stephen Grabow,Kent Spreckelmeyer Pdf

By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the central importance of the role of function in architecture as a generative force in determining built form. Using familiar twentieth-century buildings as case studies, the authors present these from a new perspective, based on their functional design concepts. Here Grabow and Spreckelmeyer expand the definition of human use to that of an art form by re-evaluating these buildings from an aesthetic and ecological view of function. Each building is described from the point of view of a major functional concept or idea of human use which then spreads out and influences the spatial organization, built form and structure. In doing so each building is presented as an exemplar that reaches beyond the pragmatic concerns of a narrow program and demonstrates how functional concepts can inspire great design, evoke archetypal human experience and help us to understand how architecture embodies the deeper purposes and meanings of everyday life.

Author : Michael Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000402100

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Reality Modeled After Images by Michael Young Pdf

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary concepts and produce political effects. Through both historical and contemporary examples, it focuses on how conventions of representation are established, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Critical investigations are conjoined with inquiries into aesthetics and technology in the hope that the tensions between them can aid an exploration into how architectural images are produced, disseminated, and valued; how images alter assumptions regarding the appearances of architecture and the environment. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book shows how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691158334

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The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger Scruton Pdf

"Paperback reissue, with a new introduction by the author."

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003269672

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The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger Scruton Pdf

Author : Kurt Brändle
Publisher : Brandle Publishing LLC
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0984727116

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Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture by Kurt Brändle Pdf

We experience meaning in architecture when we derive - as observers - impressions from it and when we give - as designers - expressions to it. This implies that meaning in architecture, like in all other fields, is process and result. The related decision making involves judgments based on theoretical and practical issues, driven by purpose, context and realization. This book proceeds from explaining the philosophical foundations of meaning to interpreting physical designs of architecture. At the center of discussion is design thinking with rational and emotional components. Because of the latter, the results are profoundly aesthetic, that is, pleasure or displeasure arises from the form of the object. The concept of design narratives is developed as the dialog between the content and the form of projects. The text is profusely supported by illustrations in color and by extensive bibliographic references. "Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture" - while being a rather personal account - provides a comprehensive basis for readers to develop their own thoughts and views.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004455870

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Architecture and Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Winters
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064992780

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Aesthetics and Architecture by Edward Winters Pdf

A sophisticated but engaging look at the debates and ideas involved in the aesthetics of architecture - part of a major new series from Continuum's philosophy list.

Author : Richard Hill,Dick Hill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300079486

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Designs and Their Consequences by Richard Hill,Dick Hill Pdf

A discussion of the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. It analyzes the relationship between buildings and designs, explores the notion of architectural experience, and covers modern architecture's aim to deepen the connection between usefulness and design.

Author : Ralf Weber,Matthias Albrecht Amann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030006134

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Aesthetics and Architectural Composition by Ralf Weber,Matthias Albrecht Amann Pdf

Author : Alan Holgate
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015028472341

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Aesthetics of Built Form by Alan Holgate Pdf

This book concentrates on presenting facts and opinions about the ways in which people respond to built form, drawing on a wide range of literature written by theorists, critics, and practicing architects. The subject matter incorporates perspectives from the psychology of aesthetic appreciation, the linguistic content of built form, the social ramifications of architecture, and, as an extension of this, the often fraught dialogue between the architect and the engineer. The book is richly illustrated with examples of buildings from all periods in history, and should be a stimulating addition to the continuing and topical debate between functionalist and aesthetic considerations affecting the planning of buildings.

Author : Robert Ginsberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495937

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The Aesthetics of Ruins by Robert Ginsberg Pdf

This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.

Author : Karsten Harries
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026258171X

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The Ethical Function of Architecture by Karsten Harries Pdf

Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and balanced arguments, Harries questions the premises on which architects and theorists have long relied—premises which have contributed to architecture's current identity crisis and marginalization. He first criticizes the aesthetic approach, focusing on the problems of decoration and ornament. He then turns to the language of architecture. If the main task of architecture is indeed interpretation, in just what sense can it be said to speak, and what should it be speaking about? Expanding upon suggestions made by Martin Heidegger, Harries also considers the relationship of building to the idea and meaning of dwelling. Architecture, Harries observes, has a responsibility to community; but its ethical function is inevitably also political. He concludes by examining these seemingly paradoxical functions.