How Architecture Got Its Hump
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How Architecture Got Its Hump
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Author : Roger Connah
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2001-04-13
How Architecture Got Its Hump written by Roger Connah and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-13 with Architecture categories.
Fables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture. In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architectural hallucinations or alibis for revisions of history. Or, are they a means for widening the site of architecture? Connah shows how these disciplines have not only contributed to new developments in architectural theory and practice, but have begun to insinuate new possibilities of space. Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acquired by the camel in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, these disciplines have had their own responsibilities and excesses grafted onto architecture, just as architecture has tried to shake off their limitations. Taking interference a step further, Connah also considers the implications of philosophical incongruity and architectural unrest. He asks how architecture loses its head, transcends the dead language it now entraps, and houses meanings it wants to contest. Hardly bleak questions, suggests Connah, for they point to ways for architecture to rescue itself.
Architecture And Science Fiction Film
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Author : David T. Fortin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Architecture And Science Fiction Film written by David T. Fortin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Architecture categories.
The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.
Architecture Depends
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Author : Jeremy Till
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-02-08
Architecture Depends written by Jeremy Till and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-08 with Architecture categories.
Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.
Touching Architecture
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Author : Anthony Brand
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Touching Architecture written by Anthony Brand and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Architecture categories.
This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses acting in concert as we move through time and space. The book picks up where much of the critique of architectural aestheticism at the end of the twentieth century left off: illustrating the limitations and potential consequences of attending to architecture as the visually biased practice which has steadily become the status quo within both industry and education. It draws upon interdisciplinary research to elucidate the reasons why this is counter-productive to the creation of meaningful places and to articulate the embodied richness of our touching encounters. A "felt-phenomenology" is introduced as a more-than visual alternative capable of sustaining our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. By recognising the reciprocal and participatory relationship that exists between atmospheric affect and our (phenomenological) bodies, we begin to appreciate the manifold ways in which we touch, and are touched, by our built environment. As such, Touching Architecture will appeal to those with an interest in architectural history and theory as well as those interested in the topic of atmospheres, affect, and embodied perception.
Entangled
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Author : Chris Salter
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010
Entangled written by Chris Salter and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Arts categories.
How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices.
Writing The Modern City
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Author : Sarah Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Writing The Modern City written by Sarah Edwards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Architecture categories.
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have shaped the world today. This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognisably ‘modern’ identities. It focuses on the cultural connections between prose narratives – the novel, short stories, autobiography, crime and science fiction – and a range of urban environments, from the city apartment and river to the colonial house and the utopian city. It explores how the themes of memory, nation and identity have been represented in both literary and architectural works in the aftermath of early twentieth-century conflict; how the cultural movements of modernism and postmodernism have affected notions of canonicity and genre in the creation of books and buildings; and how and why literary and architectural narratives are influenced by each other’s formal properties and styles. The book breaks new ground in its exclusive focus on modern narrative and urban space. The essays examine texts and spaces that have both unsettled traditional definitions of literature and architecture and reflected and shaped modern identities: sexual, domestic, professional and national. It is essential reading for students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, cultural geography, art history and architectural history.
The Architects Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Architects Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
Architectures Of Poetry
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-06
Architectures Of Poetry written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Architectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense, the eleven essays collected in this volume exemplify an exciting methodological direction for work in the humanities: a literal wager that is willing to take the unintended suggestions of language as reality. At the same time, they also provide close readings of the work of a number of important writers. In addition to a suite of essays devoted to the team of Arakawa and Madeline Gins, chapters focus on figures as diverse as Francesco Borromini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Achleitner, John Cage and Lyn Hejinian.
Journal Of The Society Of Architectural Historians
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Author : Society of Architectural Historians
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Journal Of The Society Of Architectural Historians written by Society of Architectural Historians and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Architecture categories.
Includes special issues.
The Architectural Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Architectural Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.