Reading architecture and culture : researching buildings, spaces, and documents / edited by Adam Sharr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharr, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Architecture--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details, and the documents used to make them, can be read closely for cultural insights.Introducing the idea of reading buildings as cultural artefacts, this book presents perceptive readings by eminent writers which demonstrate the power of this approach.The chapters show that close readings

Contents:

READING ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE RESEARCHING BUILDINGS, SPACES AND DOCUMENTS; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Illustration credits; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Opening; Chapter 1 Breathing walls; Part one: Extraordinary buildings, divergent readings; Chapter 2 An augury of collapse: Herzog and De Meuron's CaixaForum in Madrid; Chapter 3 Fostering relations in Kazakhstan; Chapter 4 Reading the site at Sverre Fehn's Hamar Museum; Chapter 5 A hellish cloud and a very clear air: industry, nature and weather in early eighteenth-century England

Part two: Familiar buildings, unfamiliar readingsChapter 6 Extension stories; Chapter 7 Lounge space: the home, the city and the service area; Chapter 8 The architecture of urban life: 67 rue des Meuniers; Chapter 9 The setting and the social condenser: transitional objects in architecture and psychoanalysis; Part three: Redolent details, insightful documents; Chapter 10 Four lines; Chapter 11 'God is in the details'/'The detail is moot': a meeting between Mies and Koolhass; Chapter 12 Specifying transparency: from 'best seconds' to 'new glass performences'

Chapter 13 Making plans: Alberti's ichnography as cultural artefactChapter 14 How the mind meets architecture: what photography reveals; Epilogue; Chapter 15 An architectural good-life can be built, explained and taught only through storytelling; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-72595-0

1-283-85235-7

1-135-72588-8

0-203-72119-5

9780203721193

OCLC:

892039346