Narrative architecture / Nigel Coates.

Main entry:

Coates, Nigel, author.

Title & Author:

Narrative architecture / Nigel Coates.

Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.

Description:

168 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

AD primers

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-163) and index.
The long perspective -- Radical terrain -- NATO -- Story buildings -- Practice in person -- Pure 'Narrativity'.

Summary:

In architecture, narrative prioritises human experiences and the need to shape them into stories. It places the emphasis on a building's meaning rather than performance. To architects, the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to a mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds how buildings are experienced. Since the early 1980s, many architects have used the term 'narrative' to describe their work. Nigel Coates was at the forefront of this movement as one of the founders of NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) at the Architectural Association in London. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he spearheaded narrative practice in the commercial world with designs for fashion retail, bars and nightclubs in London, Tokyo and Istanbul. Retailers, restaurant owners and event organisers, keen to talk to their customers in new ways, soon followed suit, adopting a narrative approach. In this book, Coates explores the potential for narrative as a way of interpreting buildings from ancient history through to the present. It features architects as diverse as William Kent, Antoni Gaudí, Eero Saarinen, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas and FAT. It provides an overview of the work of NATO and Coates, as well as chapters on other contemporary designers. In so doing it signposts narrative's significance as a design approach that can aid architecture to remain relevant in this complex, multidisciplinary and multi-everything age.

ISBN:

9780470057445 (pbk.)
0470057440 (pbk.)
9780470057452 (hbk.)
0470057459 (hbk.)
(ebk.)
9781119963202
1119963206
9781119963066
1119963060
9781119963073
1119963079
9781119943488
1119943485

Subject:

Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Themes, motives.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Design architectural.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture Philosophie.

Added entries:

AD primers.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280789
Call No.: BIB 217802
Status: Available

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