Architecture And Embodiment
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Architecture And Embodiment
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Author : Harry Francis Mallgrave
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-26
Architecture And Embodiment written by Harry Francis Mallgrave and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-26 with Architecture categories.
In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are promising benefits such as extended life expectancies, these same discoveries also have the potential to improve in significant ways the quality of our built environments. This poses a compelling challenge to conventional architectural theory... This is the first book to consider these new scientific and humanistic models in architectural terms. Constructed as a series of five essays around the themes of beauty, culture, emotion, the experience of architecture, and artistic play, this book draws upon a broad range of discussions taking place in philosophy, psychology, biology, neuroscience, and anthropology, and in doing so questions what implications these discussions hold for architectural design. Drawing upon a wealth of research, Mallgrave argues that we should turn our focus away from the objectification of architecture (treating design as the creation of objects) and redirect it back to those for whom we design: the people inhabiting our built environments.
Mind In Architecture
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Author : Sarah Robinson
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-03-03
Mind In Architecture written by Sarah Robinson and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-03 with Architecture categories.
Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. This expanded understanding can help architects design buildings that support both mind and body. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and neuroscience can learn from each other. They offer historical context, examine the implications for current architectural practice and education, and imagine a neuroscientifically informed architecture of the future. Architecture is late in discovering the richness of neuroscientific research. As scientists were finding evidence for the bodily basis of mind and meaning, architecture was caught up in convoluted cerebral games that denied emotional and bodily reality altogether. This volume maps the extraordinary opportunity that engagement with cutting-edge neuroscience offers present-day architects. Contributors Thomas D. Albright, Michael Arbib, John Paul Eberhard, Melissa Farling, Vittorio Gallese, Alessandro Gattara, Mark L. Johnson, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Iain McGilchrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Sarah Robinson
Architectures Of Embodiment
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Author : Alex Arteaga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-30
Architectures Of Embodiment written by Alex Arteaga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with categories.
Architecture As Embodiment Of Function In Form
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Author : Kurt Brandle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06
Architecture As Embodiment Of Function In Form written by Kurt Brandle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06 with categories.
The aspects surrounding form and function, especially those Louis Sullivan has touched on anddescribed, have given rise to over a century of controversies. Many have not been settled anddemand rethinking again and again in response to newly developed understanding. Even the slight change of "function" in "form follows function " to "functions" raises a host of questions, not to speak of addressing in depth the ambiguity of "follows". The book addresses recently evolved understanding and expands upon. A problem here, as in most discussions within complexity, is themeaning of the key terms as typically used. They require clarity to advance successful communication. The definitions in this book on embodiment, function and form are pragmatically derived from broad experiences with the design of architecture: why it is, what it is and what it does. This threefold tenet and justification of architecture is brought in the open by a highly diverse sequence of numerous built examples. Each has embodiment of human needs and desires, or itcould rightly not be called architecture. Some of the embodiment is obvious, some is not. Whateveris the case, the connections made between the ideas about need or desire and the physical properties, which constitute buildings, are what we take as functional relations. They are not allwhat function is, but they are at the center to bring it about. There happens twofold embodiment as process. On one hand it is the transformative action to find properties which fulfill the needs and desires. On the other hand it is the emergence of feeling from our thinking bodies evoked by theseproperties during the design or the experience of architecture, calling for judgment. To show thisduality abundantly and in detail is what the book is about. Crucially, it also reveals the significance of form as reality and evidence. Finally the text elaborates on the implicationsof aesthetics in all of this, with one of the surprises being the fact that the aesthetic may notbe only result to acknowledge but also function to start with. Overall, the purpose of the book isto provide a workable understanding of embodiment, function and form through the ways theyhang together. Kurt Brandle is professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Michigan. He studied at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart and the Technische Universität Berlin, and graduatedfrom the latter with diploma and doctoral degree. His work in practice, research, teaching and writing concentrated on building systems, environmental controls and energy conservation. Out ofthis involvement emerged over the past decade his heightened interest to make issues of meaningin architecture as explicit as possible.
Drawing Imagining Building
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Author : Paul Emmons
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-01
Drawing Imagining Building written by Paul Emmons and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-01 with Architecture categories.
Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices to elucidate the ways drawing advances the architect’s imagination. Emmons considers drawing practices in the Renaissance and up to the first half of the twentieth century. Combining systematic analysis across time with historical explication presents the development of hand-drawing, while also grounding early modern practices in their historical milieu. Each of the illustrated chapters considers formative aspects of architectural drawing practice, such as upright elevations, flowing lines and occult lines, and drawing scales to identify their roots in an embodied approach to show how hand-drawing contributes to the architect’s productive imagination. By documenting some of the ways of thinking through practices of architectural handdrawing, it describes how practices can enrich the ethical imagination of the architect. This book would be beneficial for academics, practitioners, and students of architecture, particularly those who are interested in the history and significance of hand-drawing and technical drawing.
The Embodied Image
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Author : Juhani Pallasmaa
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-05-16
The Embodied Image written by Juhani Pallasmaa and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with Architecture categories.
The Embodied Image The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa All artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images. These images are embodied and lived experiences that take place in ‘the flesh of the world’, becoming part of us, at the same time that we unconsciously project aspects of ourselves on to a conceived space, object or event. Artistic images have a life and reality of their own and they develop through unexpected associations rather than rational and causal logic. Images are usually thought of as retinal pictures but profound poetic images are multi-sensory and they address us in an embodied and emotive manner. Architecture is usually analysed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image quality that integrates the various aspects and dimensions of experience into a singular, internalised and remembered entity. The material reality is fused with our mental and imaginative realm. The book is organised into five main parts that look at in turn: the image in contemporary culture; language, thought and the image; the many faces of the image; the poetic image; and finally the architectural image. The Embodied Image is illustrated with over sixty images in pairs, which are diverse in subject. They range from scientific images to historic artistic and architectural masterpieces. Artworks span Michelangelo and Vermeer to Gordon Matta- Clark and architecture takes in Modern Masters such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as well as significant contemporary works by Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind.
Embedded Embodied Adaptive
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Author : Ava Fatah gen. Schiek
language : en
Publisher: Emergent Architecture Press
Release Date : 2007
Embedded Embodied Adaptive written by Ava Fatah gen. Schiek and has been published by Emergent Architecture Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architectural design categories.
The Thinking Hand
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Author : Juhani Pallasmaa
language : en
Publisher: Wiley
Release Date : 2009-04-20
The Thinking Hand written by Juhani Pallasmaa and has been published by Wiley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-20 with Architecture categories.
In our current global networked culture that puts so much emphasis on the virtual and the visual, the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected. Though physical appearance is idolised for its sexual appeal and its social identity, the role of the body in developing a full understanding of the physical world and the human condition has become neglected. The potential of the human body as a knowing entity – with all our senses as well as our entire bodily functions being structured to produce and maintain silent knowledge together – fails to be recognised. It is only through the unity of mind and body that craftsmanship and artistic work can be fully realised. Even those endeavours that are generally regarded as solely intellectual, such as writing and thinking, depend on this union of mental and manual skills. In The Thinking Hand, Juhani Pallasmaa reveals the miraculous potential of the human hand. He shows how the pencil in the hand of the artist or architect becomes the bridge between the imagining mind and the emerging image. The book surveys the multiple essences of the hand, its biological evolution and its role in the shaping of culture, highlighting how the hand–tool union and eye–hand–mind fusion are essential for dexterity and how ultimately the body and the senses play a crucial role in memory and creative work. Pallasmaa here continues the exploration begun in his classic work The Eyes of the Skin by further investigating the interplay of emotion and imagination, intelligence and making, theory and life, once again redefining the task of art and architecture through well-grounded human truths.
Architecture Is A Verb
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Author : Sarah Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-01
Architecture Is A Verb written by Sarah Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-01 with Architecture categories.
Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second, it understands human action in terms of radical embodiment—grounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, remembering—in the body. Third, it asks what a building does—that is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action. Finally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions. Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generation of designers.
Making Architecture Through Being Human
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Author : Philip D. Plowright
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Making Architecture Through Being Human written by Philip D. Plowright and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Architecture categories.
Architecture can seem complicated, mysterious or even ill-defined, especially to a student being introduced to architectural ideas for the first time. One way to approach architecture is simply as the design of human environments. When we consider architecture in this way, there is a good place to start – ourselves. Our engagement in our environment has shaped the way we think which we, in turn, use to then shape that environment. It is from this foundation that we produce meaning, make sense of our surroundings, structure relationships and even frame more complex and abstract ideas. This is the start of architectural design. Making Architecture Through Being Human is a reference book that presents 51 concepts, notions, ideas and actions that are fundamental to human thinking and how we interpret the environment around us. The book focuses on the application of these ideas by architectural designers to produce meaningful spaces that make sense to people. Each idea is isolated for clarity in the manner of a dictionary with short and concise definitions, examples and illustrations. They are organized in five sections of increasing complexity or changing focus. While many of the entries might be familiar to the reader, they are presented here as instances of a larger system of human thinking rather than simply graphic or formal principles. The cognitive approach to these design ideas allows a designer to understand the greater context and application when aligned with their own purpose or intentions.