
Fundamental Concepts of Architecture
The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2014
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-3-0346-1261-6 (ISBN)
Description
Architecture is an experience - with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture.This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like "roof," "base," "wall," and "axis" or "proportion". The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum.From "context," through "guidance," "readability," "patina," "spatial structure," "symmetry" and "tectonics," to "width" (and "narrowness") or "window," the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
150 s/w Zeichnungen
150 b/w ld
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
849 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0346-1261-6 (9783034612616)
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Fundamental Concepts of Architecture
The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations
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