Architecture, Travellers and Writers
Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2014
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-1-907975-63-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the mechanics of architectural writing, its relation to perception. It examines the effects of travel, as movement towards unfamiliar places, on perception. The book evolves from five key perceptual-representational processes: rendering, ordering, reading, thinking, and looking.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907975-63-9 (9781907975639)
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E-Book
07/2017
Routledge
€60.49
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E-Book
07/2017
Routledge
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Person
Anne Hultzsch
Content
1. Introduction: A Manual 2. Rendering Buildings into Words: Pevsner and Evelyn 3. Ordering the Unfamiliar: Bargrave and the Early Grand Tour 4. Reading Books: Defoe, Smollett, and the Country-House Guidebook 5. Thinking in Metaphor: Evelyn and Ruskin 6. Looking through the Lens: Evelyn, Goethe, and Burckhardt 7. Conclusions