Environmental imagination : technics and poetics of the architectural environment
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TextPublication details: London & New York Routledge 2008Description: xxi,233pISBN: - 0415360870
- 720.47 HAW
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| Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Design | 720.47 HAW | Available | Status:Catalogued;Bill No:47733 | 009122 |
CONTENTS Preface vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction x Part I From Enlightenment to Modernity 1 Essay I Soane, Labrouste, Mackintosh : pioneers of environment 3 Part II The Twentieth-Century Environment : themes and variations31 Essay 2 Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe : continuity and invention 33 Essay 3 The 'other' environmental tradition : Erik Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto 61 Essay 4 The poetics of 'served' and 'servant' : Louis I. Kahn 87 Essay 5 'I wish I could frame the blue of the sky' : Carlo Scarpa 111 Essay 6 Architecture of adaptive light: Sigurd Lewerentz 129 Part III Image and Environment 143 Essay 7 The sheltering environment : Fehn and Zumthor 145 Essay 8 The art museum: art, environment, imagination : Moneo, Siza, Caruso StJohn, Zumthor 157 Essay 9 Sacred places : Zumthor, Siza, Holl 185 Essay 10 Airs, waters, places : Thcrme Vals 203 Selected bibliography 220 Index 226 Illustration credits 233
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