The Roots Of Architectural Invention

Author : David Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521442656

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The Roots of Architectural Invention by David Leatherbarrow Pdf

Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture is a study in the history and theory of architecture. Challenging the contemporary concentration on style, it argues that site, enclosure and materials are fundamental elements in sound architectural design. Each of the chapters in this study reviews and criticises current assumptions and then provides an analysis of historical texts, by such theoreticians as Perrault, F. L. Wright, and Le Corbusier, in so far as they illuminate current thinking. Considerable discussion is also devoted to significant buildings, both modern and venerable, that provide the basis for the author's argument. Outlining typical thinking in architecture, with reference to rhetoric and the art of memory, Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture defines architecture as a form of representation that is caught up in the temporal unfolding of human events.

Author : Richard Weston
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300095791

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Materials, Form and Architecture by Richard Weston Pdf

"First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London."--T.p. verso.

Author : David Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521442656

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The Roots of Architectural Invention by David Leatherbarrow Pdf

Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture is a study in the history and theory of architecture. Challenging the contemporary concentration on style, it argues that site, enclosure and materials are fundamental elements in sound architectural design. Each of the chapters in this study reviews and criticises current assumptions and then provides an analysis of historical texts, by such theoreticians as Perrault, F. L. Wright, and Le Corbusier, in so far as they illuminate current thinking. Considerable discussion is also devoted to significant buildings, both modern and venerable, that provide the basis for the author's argument. Outlining typical thinking in architecture, with reference to rhetoric and the art of memory, Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture defines architecture as a form of representation that is caught up in the temporal unfolding of human events.

Author : Jin Baek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317438007

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Architecture as the Ethics of Climate by Jin Baek Pdf

At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage with these core issues. Drawing on Tetsuro Watsuji‘s (1889-1960) philosophy, the book illuminates climate not as a collection of objective natural phenomena, but as a concrete form of bond in which "who we are"—the subjective human experience—is indivisibly intertwined with the natural phenomena. The book further elucidates the inter-personal nature of climatic experiences, criticizing a view that sees atmospheric effects of climate under the guise of personal experientialism and reinforcing the linkage between climate and ethos as the appropriateness of a setting for human affairs. This ethical premise of climate stretches the horizon of sustainability as pertaining not only to man’s solitary relationship with natural phenomena—a predominant trend in contemporary discourse of sustainability—but also to man’s relationship with man. Overcoming climatic determinism—regional determinism, too—and expanding the ethics of the inter-personal to the level where the whole and particulars are joined through the dialectics of the mutually-negating opposites, Jin Baek develops a new thesis engaging with the very urgent issues inherent in sustainable architecture. Crucially, the book explores examples that join climate and the dynamics of the inter-personal, including: Japanese vernacular residential architecture the white residential architecture of Richard Neutra contemporary architectural works and urban artifacts by Tadao Ando and Aldo Rossi Beautifully illustrated, this book is an important contribution to the discourse which surrounds architecture, climate and ethics and encourages the reader to think more broadly about how to respond to the current challenges facing the profession.

Author : David Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350165212

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Building Time by David Leatherbarrow Pdf

While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. All buildings exist in time. Even if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but inevitably. They change use, they accrue history and meaning, they decay – all of these processes are inscribed in time. So too is the path traced by the sun through a building, and the movements of the human body from room to room. Time, this book argues, is the framework for our spatial experience of architecture, and a key dimension of a building's structure and significance. Building Time presents twelve close readings of buildings and artworks which explore this idea. Examining works by distinctive modern architects – from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang Shu – it takes the reader, in some cases literally step-by-step, through a built work, and provides insightful reflections on the importance of 'making space for time' in architectural design. This is a book for both theorists and for architectural designers. Through it, theorists will find a way to rethink the fundamental premises and aims of design work, while designers will rediscover the order and ideas that shape the world around them-its buildings, interiors, and landscapes.

Author : Matt Bua,Maximilian Goldfarb
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781780674018

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Architectural Inventions by Matt Bua,Maximilian Goldfarb Pdf

Born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive, Architectural Inventions presents a stunning visual study of impossible or speculative structures that exist only on paper. Soliciting the work of architects, designers, and artists of renown –as well as emerging talents from all over the world –Maximilian Goldfarb and Matt Bua have gathered an array of works that convey architectural alternatives, through products, expansions, or critiques of our inhabited environments. From abstract and conceptual visual interpretations of structures to more traditional architectural renderings, the featured work is divided into thematic chapters, ranging from 'Adapt/Reuse' to 'Clandestine'' 'Mobile'' 'Radical Lifestyle', 'Techno-Sustainable', and 'Worship'. Along with arresting and awe-inspiring illustrated content, every chapter also features an essay exploring its respective themes. Highlighting visions that exist outside of established channels of production and conventions of design, Architectural Inventions showcases a wide scope in concept and vision, fantasy and innovation.

Author : Duanfang Lu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317379256

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History by Duanfang Lu Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into three parts – Practices, Interrogations, and Innovations – this book charts diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars and fresh theoretical orientations. The collection features 29 chapters written by leading architectural scholars and highlights the reciprocity between the historical and the contemporary, research and practice, and disciplinary and professional knowledge. Providing an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture, the Companion will interest students, academics, and practitioners who wish to bolster their understanding of built environments.

Author : Adam Sharr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415601429

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Reading Architecture and Culture by Adam Sharr Pdf

Introducing the notion of appreciating buildings as cultural artefacts, this book presents insightful readings by eminent writers which show the power of this approach. Reading architecture in this way can help architects to appreciate the contexts in which they operate when they design. This book introduces, outlines and elaborates on this and opens-up powerful insights for historians, critics and students.

Author : Elie G. Haddad,David Rifkind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351962599

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A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture by Elie G. Haddad,David Rifkind Pdf

1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. It consists of two parts: the first section providing a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.

Author : Thomas Gordon Smith
Publisher : G.M. Smith
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015013169522

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Classical Architecture by Thomas Gordon Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001968338

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Precedent and Invention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135993948

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Utopias and Architecture by Nathaniel Coleman Pdf

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of idealism in architectural design. With unparalleled depth and focus of vision on the work of Le Corbusier, Louis I Kahn and Aldo van Eyck, this book persuasively challenges predominant assumptions in current architectural discourse, forging a new approach to the invention of welcoming built environments and transcending the limitations of both the postmodern and hyper-modern stance and orthodox modernist architecture.

Author : Anne Bordeleau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317168188

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Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time by Anne Bordeleau Pdf

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the grounds of architectural judgment (who decides and how), or fundamentally, how to act (i.e. build) when there is no longer a single grand narrative but a plurality of possible histories. Six drawings provide the foundation of an itinerary through Charles Robert Cockerell’s conception of architecture, and into the depths of drawings and buildings. Born in England in 1788, Cockerell sketched as a Grand Tourist, he charted architectural history as Royal Academy Professor, he drew to build, to exhibit, to understand the past and to learn from it, publishing his last work in 1860, three years before his death. Under our scrutiny, his drawings become thresholds into the nineteenth century, windows into the architect’s conception of architecture and time, complex documents of past and projected constructions, great examples that reveal a kinetic approach to ornamentation, and the depth of architectural representation.

Author : Sarah Menin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134379088

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Constructing Place by Sarah Menin Pdf

This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.

Author : George Dodds,Robert Tavernor,Joseph Rykwert
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262041952

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Body and Building by George Dodds,Robert Tavernor,Joseph Rykwert Pdf

Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.