What is Architecture?

ISBN-13: 9780415256278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str.

Andrew Ballantyne

Opis

Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a view of architecture which ranges from the minimal domesticity of Diogenes' barrel, to the exuberant experiments of the contemporary avant-garde. Architecture is always more than building, but is a folding together of buildings and culture, so that the buildings come to have meaning as they are caught up in a way of life, and architecture is best appreciated as part of an art of living. Andrew Ballantyne's substantial essay The Nest and the Pillar of Fire introduces the collection, which explores some themes and problems generated by architecture, from the everyday to the extraordinary, by looking at architecture and what people have to say about it.

Spis treści

Introduction. The Nest and the Pillar of Fire. Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism. The Architecture of Deceit. Spatial Stories. The Dark Side of the Domus. The Metaphysics of Housework. "Hi Honey, I'm Home": Weary (Neurasthenic) Businessmen and the Formulation of a Serenely Modern Aesthetic. From Techne to Tectonics. Rappel a l'Ordre: the Case for the Tectonic. The Dislocation of the Architectural Self. The Pleasures of Architecture.

O autorze

Ballantyne, Andrew