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Intentions in architecture / by Christian Norberg-Schulz.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating NA2500 .N6 1965
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norberg-Schulz, Christian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- Aesthetics.
- architecture (discipline).
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages illustrations, plans 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass, M.I.T. Press [1965]
- Summary:
- Norberg-Schulz is a practicing architect--his buildings stand in several countries--and he elucidates the nature of architectural reality with a practiced eye and from a practical viewpoint. The chief focus of the book is on the symbolic and linguistic. The purpose is to develop an integrated theory of architectural description and architectural intention (and this includes the intention of the user as well as that of the designer), insofar as architecture is an art.
- Contents:
- I. Introduction
- II. Background:
- 1. Perception
- 2. Symbolization
- III. Theory:
- 1. Towards an integrated theory of architecture
- 2. The building task
- 3. Form
- 4. Technics
- 5. Semantics
- 6. The architectural totality
- IV. Outlook:
- 1. Experience
- 2. Production
- 3. Analysis
- 4. Education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Charles Moleski.
- ISBN:
- 0262640023
- 9780262640022
- OCLC:
- 123210912
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