Dwelling with architecture / Roderick Kemsley, Christopher Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemsley, Roderick, author.

Platt, Christopher (Christopher Joseph), 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Architecture and society.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 235 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses. That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for significant architectural insights is hardly an original observation. However this book seeks to bring the two topics together in a unique way. In exploring a building type that lies on the cusp of what is commonly understood as 'building' and 'architecture', it asks fundamental questions about what the very nature of architecture is. Who indeed is the architect and what is their role in the process of creating meaningful buildings?"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The experience of place

3. Constraints and preoccupations

4. Dwelling and houses

5. The building in the landscape

6. The innocent and the sophisticated

7. The cycle of learning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-228) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 02, 2020)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780203107140

9781136260926

9781136260872

9781136260919

Access Restriction:

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