Main entry:

Quantrill, Malcolm, 1931-2009.

Title & Author:

The environmental memory : man and architecture in the landscape of ideas / Malcolm Quantrill.

Publication:

New York : Schocken Books, 1987.

Description:

xxii, 214 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
Architecture as the tool-kit of memory. The house of memory -- The city as a mirror of consciousness -- The celebration of place -- Image, memory, and spirit of place -- A view of the room-a room with a view -- The city and its habitations: the anatomy of memory and the labyrinth of the soul -- More a matter of substance than of style. Myth and memory in the landscape: the Nabatean monuments at Petra -- Memory of the upper room, image of court, temple and heavenly manison -- St. Petersburg: memory of a garden, image of an empire -- Aalto's use of memory: the urban fragments -- L'Espirit de l'Escalier -- The body of knowledge and the body of architecture.

ISBN:

0805240160
9780805240160

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Architektur
Psychologie
Umwelt

Holdings:

Location: Library main 34258
Call No.: ID:88-B571
Status: Available