Title & Author:

Raw : architectural engagements with nature / edited by Solveig Bøe, Hege Charlotte Faber and Brit Strandhagen, NTNU-Trondheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]

Description:

xvii, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sand. water. wind / Jan Brockmann -- Ruskin, rocks and water / Andrew Ballantyne -- Building and belonging. John Ruskin on the art and nature of architecture / Dag T. Andersson -- A visual journey into environmental aesthetics / Birgit Cold -- The illumination of time in space. Experience of nature in Vejleå Church / Svein Aage Christoffersen -- Nature in sacred buildings / Margunn Sandal -- The making of atmosphere in architecture / Eivind Kasa -- Natural wine and aesthetics / Ole Martin Skilleås & Douglas Burnham -- Nature per fumum: perfumes, environments and materiality / Solveig Bøe -- Impressions of nature in Rautavaara's music / Reidar Bakke -- The raw, the hidden and the sublime. Four artworks and one bridge / Hege Charlotte Faber -- The raw within. Tracing the raw in human life in bricks, Roy Andersson's You, the living and Ernst Barlach's Beggar on crutches / Sigurd Bergmann -- 'Lifelining' landscapes: aesthetic encounters with nature / Brit Strandhagen -- Aesthetic values and ecological facts -- a conflict, a compromise, or what? / Arto Haapala -- Raw contained / Alex Booker.

Summary:

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture. 0Nature is examined in a raw intermediary state, where it is noticeable as nature, despite, but at the same time through, man’s effort at creating form. This is done by approaching nature from the perspective of architecture, understood, not only as concrete buildings, but as a fundamental human way both of being in, and relating to, the world. Man finds and forms places where life may take place. Consequently, architecture may be understood as ranging from the simple mark on the ground and primitive enclosure, to the contemporary megalopolis. Nature inheres in many aesthetic forms of expression. In architecture, however, nature emerges with a particular power and clarity, which makes architecture a raw kind of art. Even though other forms of art, as well as aesthetic phenomena outside the arts, are addressed, the analogy to architecture will be evident and important.0Thus, by using the concept of ‘raw’ as a focal point, this book provides new approaches to architecture in a broad sense, as well as other aesthetic and artistic practices, and will be of interest to readers from different fields of the arts and humanities, spanning from philosophy and theology to history of art, architecture and music.

ISBN:

9781472421005 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472421000 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472421012
(epub)
9781472421029

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Architecture.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Nature (Esthétique)
Architektur
Natur

Added entries:

Bøe, Solveig, editor.
Faber, Hege Charlotte, 1961- editor.
Strandhagen, Brit, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290716
Call No.: BIB 233849
Status: Available