Main entry:

Aldallal, Enis, author.

Title & Author:

Site and composition : design strategies in architecture and urbanism / Enis Aldallal, Husam AlWaer and Soumen Bandyopadyay.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Description:

xi, 182 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Site and composition : Fragment and fragmentation ; Wholeness ; Fragmentation in architecture -- Resilient fragments : The persistent shadow of injustice ; The rise of the fragment and 'measure' ; An 'archipelago' of fragments ; Tapestry as vêtement -- Site readings : Introduction: Site as an urban fragment ; Site-by-site and figure-ground relationship ; Site fragments: the Wexner Centre for the Visual Arts ; Sectional analysis ; Boundary as communicative space ; Conclusion: Site at different scales of integrity and fragmentation -- The planimetric composition of site : Drawing and composition in architecture: information and disegno ; The mediating projection ; The intrinsic role of section or the tyranny of the plan ; Exclusivism versus inclusivism ; Topography as a font of design ; The completing plan: or how topography is both the signified and the signifier ; Horizontal flow: Zaha Hadid's 'LF One' landscape exhibition ; Emergent fragment: Peter Eisenman's Wexner Centre ; Mediation: Peter Eisenman's Aronoff Centre for the Arts ; Conclusion: Emergent composition -- Enmeshed horizons: interior and exterior spaces : Introduction: Space experience in architecture ; In-between chora ; Reciprocity and disjunction versus convergence or stasis versus flow ; The defining horizon ; Charged fragments: reciprocity in Le Corbusier's Mill Owners' Association, Ahmedabad ; Conclusion: The residual mission of site -- Materiality and the culture of place : Place considerations: place between perception and materialisation ; Place extension: immediate context, ultimate context and material invention ; Local materials or the influence of immediate context ; Regional materials or influence of ultimate context ; The play of mediating boundaries ; Conclusion : Camouflage -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

9780415498258 hardback alkaline paper
0415498252 hardback alkaline paper
9780415498265 paperback alkaline paper
0415498260 paperback alkaline paper
ebook
9781315730370

Subject:

University of Dundee Staff author.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.

Added entries:

Al Waer, Husam, author.
Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316545
Call No.: 316545
Copy: 1
Status: Available