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Sound worlds of Japanese gardens : an interdisciplinary approach to spatial thinking / Michael D. Fowler.
LIBRA SB458 .F68 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fowler, Michael D., author.
- Series:
- Cultural and media studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens, Japanese.
- Sounds.
- Gardening--Therapeutic use.
- Gardening.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]
- Contents:
- Japanese Garden Aesthetics 13
- The Garden as a Spatial Paradigm 13
- Early Chinese Models 15
- Influences of Zen 20
- Later Developments 25
- John Cage's Ryoanji 32
- Cage's Aesthetics 32
- Cage and the Garden at Ryoan-ji 34
- Further Thoughts 43
- Formal Methodologies for Analyzing the Japanese Garden 47
- Two Gardens as Test Cases 47
- Acoustic Ecology 49
- The Soundscape of Koishikawa Korakuen 55
- The Spatial Auditory Experience 60
- Auditory Semiotics 66
- The Technique of Shakkei 66
- The Garden of Kyu Furukawa Teien 70
- Diagramming Auditory and Landscape Elements 74
- Reflections 80
- The Aural Architecture of Kyu Furukawa Teien 81
- Formal Concept Analysis 85
- Generating an Ontology 85
- Design Praxis and Ecology 92
- Towards a Design Theory 97
- Landscape-Soundscape Synthesis 99
- After Cage 106
- Introduction 106
- Beyond Ryoan-ji 108
- Re-Ryoanji: Towards a New Spatial Model 110
- The Nature of Musical Equivalents 115
- Eco-structural Sound-Space Design 116
- Acoustic Intersections 119
- Software Design 121
- Spatial Meaning 124
- Sesshutei as a Spatial Model 128
- Methodologies for Transmediation 132
- Implementation 138
- 新龍安時 (Shin-Ryoan-ji) 142
- A Digital Sound Ecology 144
- On Gardening with Sounds 150
- Architectonic Form Finding 152
- NURBS Map I / II 156
- Kyu Furukawa Teien Shusaku 163
- Data-Structures 164
- Form Generation 169
- "No-Stop Garden" 173
- Kyu Furukawa Teien Lattice as Piecewise Function 176
- Conway's Rule 2,3/3 as Evolutionary Guide 182
- The Inheritance from Neighborhood Gardens 185
- On Design Space Exploration 192
- Reflective Practice 197
- On Spatial Thinking 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-218).
- ISBN:
- 3837625680
- 9783837625684
- OCLC:
- 890589833
- Publisher Number:
- 99962695662
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