Cognition and the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9781138188365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 190 str.

Ole Moystad

Opis

In Building Culture, the basic assumption is that the city, including its inhabitants, forms an intelligent system, an architecture suspended between the human mind and the world of which we are part. Intelligence and meaning are given pragmatist definitions: "Intelligence is the ability to interact appropriately with the world, and meaning is the accomplishment of such interation" (Peirce 1955:23-41). With this assumption as vantage point, Building Culture discusses the meaning and intelligence of concrete architectural labor, the labour of the architect as well as that of the client, both members of civic society. The path of inquiry oscillates between abstract thought, models of cognitive semiotics, through pragmatist philosophy to the professoinal practice of planning cities, developing projects and designing and building objects. Writing for students and academics of urban design, urban planning, and architectural theory, Ole Moystad addresses emerging fields of planning and architecture and areas of rapid and ongoing structural change with a theory of an intelligent and sustainable architecture based on continuity.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Prologue Part I. Making Sense Chapter 1. Some Steps Towards Meaning Chapter 2. Umwelt Chapter 3. Place and Interpretant Chapter 4. Postscript to Making Sense Part II. The Field Chapter 5. 'City' as a Measure of Density Chapter 6. An Architecture of the Field Part III. The Object Chapter 7. The TAO of Architecture Chapter 8. Physics of Meaning and Form Chapter 9. An Architecture of the Object Part IV. The Work Chapter 10. Change Between Develoment and Catastrophe Chapter 11. Speed and Urban Development Chapter 12. A Topology of the Work of Architecture Epilogue, Index

O autorze

Ole Möystad defended his PhD on architecture and cognitive semiotics in 1994. He has pursued this topic through academic as well as professional work in Beirut, Oslo, Trondheim, Lisbon, Barcelona, Asmara, Xi’an, Delftand Brussels. He is Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University ofScience and Technology(NTNU), Norway,and head of The Urban Trigger Group.