How to Read Architecture : An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

Paulette (Woodbury University Singley

ISBN 10: 0415836182 / ISBN 13: 9780415836180

Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun 2019, 2019

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Neuware - How to Read Architecture is based on the premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it.

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• Titolo: How to Read Architecture : An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun 2019
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415836182
• ISBN 13: 9780415836180
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 238 L x 160 A x 25 P (millimetri) 238 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 774 grammi

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How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread, closely read, conventionally read, and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process.

This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in, from the inside-out, and from the position of out-and-out, or formal, architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design, landscape design, and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir, scenography, criticality, atmosphere, tectonics, inhabitation, type, form, and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents, Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context, addresses its performative exigencies, and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object.

Including over 300 images, this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context.

Informazioni sull?autore

Paulette Singley is a widely read architectural historian and theorist whose work expands the disciplinary limits of architecture across diverse subject matter such as food, film, and fashion. She is a Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, California. She received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Cornell University, and a B.Arch. from the University of Southern California. She co-edited Eating Architecture, the first book to explore the intersections of architecture and the culinary arts. She also co-edited Architecture: In Fashion and has published chapters in several anthologies as well as essays in architecture journals such as Log and Assemblage.