Main entry:

Hubbard, Bill, Jr., 1947-

Title & Author:

A theory for practice : architecture in three discourses / Bill Hubbard, Jr.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.

Description:

179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
Introduction: Thinking Like an Architect -- 1. Other Ways to Think about a Building. 1a. Thinking about Results. 1b. Thinking about Values -- 2. Getting Specific about Other Ways of Thinking. 2a. From Results to the Market. 2b. From Values to Community -- 3. A Way to Think about Practice -- 4. Working with Other Ways of Thinking -- 5. Talking across Ways of Thinking -- 6. The Good Life for an Architect.

Summary:

"To speak comprehensively about building today requires that we think about building in three different ways - as an instance of architectural order, as an embodiment of values about living, and as an instrument for bringing about results." "With this insight, Bill Hubbard offers architects a useful new way of thinking about the work they do. He looks at all of the groups with an interest in a work of architecture - owners, inhabitants, customers, community groups, critics and historians, architecture schools - and presents a conceptual framework in which those disparate interests are not just given a place but are honored for providing different perspectives on the building." "Recalling a time when a building could be encompassed by a single way of thinking, Hubbard reviews how political, economic, and philosophical movements have fostered new roles for buildings and provided new ways of thinking about them. How can these ways of thinking talk to each other, much less have a conversation that can produce a building? To find a language for such conversation is the task Hubbard takes on, through an exploration of the concept of a sense of place." "In the book's closing chapters Hubbard describes the varieties of place that we can feel, and proposes a way to characterize such feelings and render them usable by designers. In so doing, he raises a fundamental question about the practice of architecture; he proposes that theory for practice founded on the idea of creating a sense of place is not a radical departure for architects because the acts of creating place are the acts architects do, for themselves, in their daily lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0262082357
9780262082358
0262581450
9780262581455

Subject:

Architectural design Philosophy.
Design architectural Philosophie.
Architekturtheorie
Architektur
Philosophie
Architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117428
Call No.: ID NA2750.H8; ID:95-B137
Status: Available