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Architecture is a verb / Sarah Robinson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Robinson, Sarah (Architect), author.
Contributor:
Taylor & Francis eBooks.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Architecture--Human factors.
Architecture.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 258 pages)
polychrome
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Situated Poetics
Architecture's Resistance
The Possibility of an Integrated Approach
Architecture Is a Verb
Radical Embodiment
Situated Poetics
2 From Vitruvius to the Resonant Body
From Source to Subject
Qualitative Measure
Le Modulor
No Such Thing as Average
Situated Bodies
Space as Medium
Resonant Bodies
Sphere Activitatis
3 Extended Organisms-Surrogate Bodies
Philosophy of the Organism
The Biological and the Physical: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Extended Organisms
The Primacy of Movement
Primordial Techne
Inhabiting-The Matrix of Habitual Action
4 Questioning Perception
Umwelt and Affordances
Niche Construction
Neural Plasticity and Epigenetic Change
Knowledge Is External
Reprogramming Sensory Life
Architectural Affordances
5 Constructing Consciousness
Consciousness Is Rhythmic
The Natural History of Consciousness
Art Structures Consciousness
The Future Enters Through the Work of Art
Laminated Consciousness
6 Taxonomy of Interactions
Structures of Consciousness
Archaic Consciousness
Magic Consciousness
Mythical Consciousness
Mental-Rational Consciousness
Integral Consciousness
7 The Primacy of Breathing
Affirming the Breath
Empathy and Entrainment
The Epistemology of the Skin
Cultures of Breathing
A Brief Study of Desert Thermal-Cultural Devices
Resisting
Touching
Haptic Perception
8 Homo Faber
Resonating
Music: A Technology of Bonding
Buildings as Musical Instruments
Sound as a Building Material
Dancing
Kinesthetic Awareness
Mechanisms of Mutuality
Making
9 Collective Dreaming
Imagining
Complementarity
Suspension
Metaphor: Patterning Fields
Remembering
Storytelling
Narrative and Self
Empathy and Story
10 This Lesser, Rebellious Field
Abstracting
From Panoptics to Peripheral Vision
Learning From the Japanese Garden
Framing
Thinking
Improvisation
Nature of the Medium
The Bottom-Up/Top-Down Dialectic
11 The Soil of the Sensible
Integration
Inhabiting
Eating
Sleeping
Being Bored
Walking
An Architecture of Moments
Playing
Counterforms
Visceral Urbanism
Healing
12 Fields of Care: Concluding Thoughts
Taxonomy of Interactions Appendix
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Robinson, Sarah (Architect). Architecture is a verb
ISBN:
9781003103004
1003103006
9781000342598
100034259X
9781000342659
1000342654
Publisher Number:
40030476174
Access Restriction:
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