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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I can't recall what possessed me to buy this book not long after it came out. Not familiar with the author, I must have been intrigued by the title and the notion that architects need to get back much of what has been ceded to engineers. (The book can be seen as an extension of Reyner Banham's The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment.) Perhaps this book set me off on my utopian belief that mechanical engineers are unnecessary -- if architects would only design more in tune with nature. This book has therefore had a lingering impact on my thinking (even if that thinking has not come across directly in my writing). Structured as case studies of four houses, my favorite is the chapter on Charles Moore's own house in Orinda, California; the(other houses are: a traditional Finnish log house; Tadao Ando's early Wall House; and Corbu's Villa Savoye. I learned to dislike Moore in architecture school -- stemming most likely from a paper I wrote on his Piazza d'Italia -- but LaVine's study made me question my earlier dismissal. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture, Lance LaVine shows that in architecture, as practiced and taught today, the technological aspect of the profession -- how weight is distributed, how heat flow is regulated, and how light is permitted to enter -- has been ceded to engineers and other technical specialists. And in doing so, he argues, architects have lost sight of one of architecture's most important purposes, that of providing a literal and figurative window onto the world.As a technology of habitation, architecture should give people both a practical and a metaphorical understanding of their relationship with nature. For LaVine, this knowledge emanates from a sensual understanding of the natural world as a "felt force". At its most basic level, architecture demands an understanding of and response to the natural forces of gravity, climate, and sunlight. At the center of Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture are case studies of four very different houses: a Finnish log farmhouse from the nineteenth century; Charles Moore's house in Orinda, California; Tadao Ando's Wall House in Japan; and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye near Paris. Through his imaginative readings of structures, LaVine highlights how the architects involved have used the oldest and most fundamental architectural technologies -- walls, floors, ceilings, columns, beams, and windows -- in ways that offer creative responses to the natural world and humanity's place in it. Clearly, architects are comfortable with the practical and aesthetic components of their profession. With this book, Lance LaVine encourages them also to understand what makes their use of technology unique and essential, and to reclaim the naturalworld for meaningful interpretation in their design of buildings. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)720.1The arts Architecture Architecture - modified standard subdivisions Theory And InstructionLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |