Title & Author:

Scale : imagination, perception, and practice in architecture / edited by Gerald Adler, Timothy Brittain-Catlin, and Gordana Fontana-Giusti.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Description:

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities

Notes:
Selected papers from the AHRA Annual International Conferences.
"A project of the Architectural Humanities Research Association."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-231) and index.
Excursus 1 : the scale of the detail / Michel da Costa Gonçalves and Nathalie Rozencwajg -- The role of small-scale images by Wenceslaus Hollar : the rebuilding of London in the late seventeenth century / Gordana Fontana-Giusti -- Mildendo and Masdar : a tale of two cities / Adam Sharr -- 'Examining the knots ... counting the bricks' : John Ruskin's innocent eye / Stephen Kite -- The worm's eye as a measure of man : Choisy's development of axonometry in architectural representation / Hilary Bryon -- Excursus 2 : scale in recent projects by MVRDV / Nathalie de Vries -- Colour scales / Fay Zika -- Scales on interaction : aligning the qualitative with the quantitative in music and architecture / Fiona Smyth -- Architectural scale : psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes / Janet Sayers -- Sublime indifference / Helen Mallinson -- Measuring up : measurement pieces and the redefinition of scale in conceptual art / Elise Noyez -- Scaling haptic-haptic scaling : studying scale and scaling in the haptic design process of two architects who lost their sight / Peter-Wilhelm Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen -- Scale adjustment in architecture and music / Richard Coyne -- Excursus 3 : Complex ordinariness in Oxford : 'house after two years of living' / Igea Troiani -- Ethos pathos logos : architects and their chairs / Jonathan Foote -- 'Halfway between the electron and the universe' : Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia / Simon Richards -- Little boxes / Gerald Adler -- Scale and identity in the housing projects of Coderch / Michael Pike.

Summary:

Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. 'To build in scale' is an aspiration that is usually taken for granted by most of those involved in architectural production, as well as by members of the public; yet in a world where value systems of all kinds are being questioned, the term has come under renewed scrutiny. The older, more particular, meanings in the humanities, pertaining to classical Western culture, are where the sense of scale often resides in cultural production. Scale may be traced back, ultimately, to the discovery of musical harmonies, and in the arithmetic proportional relationship of the building to its parts. One might question the continued relevance of this understanding of scale in the global world of today. What, in other words, is culturally specific about scale? And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or by hyper-reality? Structured thematically in three parts, this book addresses various issues of scale. The book includes an introduction which sets the scene in terms of current architectural discourse and also contains a visual essay in each section. It is of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners in architecture and architectural theory as well as to students in a range of other disciplines including art history and theory, geography, anthropology and landscape architecture. -- Book Description.

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ISBN:

9780415687119 (hardback ; alk. paper)
041568711X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415687126 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415687128 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781135749682
113574968X

Subject:

Architecture Composition, proportion, etc. Congresses.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc. Congrès.
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Architekturtheorie
Arkitektur.

Form/genre:

Kongress 2010.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Adler, Gerald, 1955-
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy.
Fontana-Giusti, Gordana.
Architectural Humanities Research Association.
Critiques.

Imagination, perception, and practice in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280086
Call No.: BIB 216522
Status: Available