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A new look at humanism : in architecture, landscapes, and urban design / Robert Hart Lamb ; drawings by Albrecht Pichler.
Main entry:

Hart, Robert Lamb, author.

Title & Author:

A new look at humanism : in architecture, landscapes, and urban design / Robert Hart Lamb ; drawings by Albrecht Pichler.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] CA : Meadowlark Publishing, 2015.
©2015

Description:

x, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-252) and index.
Preface : A new look at humanism ; Some "deeper order" of things -- 1. Introduction : What is like to be there? : What's going on in the mind and body -- 2. Origins : Human nature -- An evolutionary perspective : Instincts, predilections, values ; Minds, memories, unique personalities ; The lens of culture -- Natural selection : The "pleasure" of winning, surviving, and prospering ; Civilization and affluence ; Fine-tuned detection and communication -- Origins in evolution : Habitats ; Buildings ourselves into the life of the land -- Refuge and prospect -- Exploration and peril-order and complexity : Order and complexity -- Orientation -- Creative skill -- "Social animals": villages and cities : Settlements ; The urban habitat -- "Economic man": costs and benefits -- 3. The mind that encounters architecture : The response begins : First impressions, reasoning, learning -- Intentions and expectations : Designing with evidence ; "It's about me" -- Structuring experience : Order and patterns ; The comfort of the familiar ; Lure of the new -- Understanding one kind of thing in terns of another : Making associations ; Places / people -- Symbols -- Hierarchies -- Stories -- Geometries : A mathematical order ; In a building environment ; Forms and proportions -- Opening minds : An ecological perspective -- 4. The body that responds : The body-centered art : The architecture of humanism ; An organizing metaphor -- A psycho-physical framework : Boundaries ; Coordinates ; Locating centers and links ; Human scale ; Rhythms and time -- Transcending -- Body states : Designing for the chemistry -- Out on the land -- The senses : Sensory systems ; The subjective experience ; What the eye can see -- Light and color : Color -- Hearing -- The chemical receptors: tastes and smell -- Touch and sensing space : Touch ; Sensing space and mass ; People, vehicles, space -- 5. The languages of humanism : Ideologies : The humanism in modernism ; The maturing, merging sciences of "thinking and feeling" -- Languages of a built environment : The language of landscape ; Design with nature ; The language of architecture ; A pattern language -- A native tongue -- The classical priority : The organic priority ; Sacred places ; The role of ornament -- Aesthetic experience : The potential ; Release, learning, kinship ; The great places -- 6. Interim conclusions : "... to do what we set out to do ..." : Brief outline of the idea -- Next : Into the educational mainstream ; Changing perception.
Summary:

A book aimed at enlarging the way new architects think about design. Referencing many of the new and emerging life sciences, the book explores how we interact with building from physical to spiritual responses. A fascinating look at relationships between nature, human nature, architecture and landscape. A historical, scientific and psychological look at how human culture and thinking shapes the environment we live in -- Google.

ISBN:

9781938010040
1938010043

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Humanism in architecture.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern History.
Humanisme en architecture.
Design architectural.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Pichler, Albrecht, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294926
Call No.: BIB 240855
Status: Available

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