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Materials and Meaning in Architecture

Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings

Af: Nathaniel Coleman
Kategori: Architecture
Kategori nr.: 9530
Varenr.: 3350417
| Stregkode: 9781474287753
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Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation. Arguing that architecture is primarily experienced by the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad-ranging study shows how the most engaging built works are as tactile as they are sensuous, communicating directly with the bodily senses, especially touch. It explores the theme of ‘material imagination’ and the power of establishing ‘place identity’ in an architect’s work, to consider the enduring expressive possibilities of material use in architecture. The book’s chapters can be dipped into, each individual chapter providing close readings of built works by selected modern masters (Scarpa, Zumthor, Williams and Tsien), insights into key texts and theories (Ruskin, Loos, Bachelard), or short cultural histories of materials (wood, brick, concrete, steel, and glass). And yet, taken together, the chapters build to a powerful book-length argument about how meaning accrues to materials through time, and about the need to reinsert the bodily experience of materiality into architectural design. It is thus also, in part, a manifesto: arguing for architecture to act as a bulwark against the tide of an increasingly depersonalised built environment. With insights for a wide range of readers, ranging from students through to researchers and professional designers, Materials and Meaning in Architecture will cause theorists to rethink their assumptions and designers to see new potential for their projects.

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9781474287753
  • Vægt
    506 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Nathaniel Coleman
  • Forlag
    Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN
    9781474287753
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    336
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    PAPERBACK
  • Themakode
    AMA
  • Kategori
    Architecture
  • Kategori nr
    9530
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    233 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    157 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    17 mm