Imaginative Reasoning in the Shaping of Buildings

ISBN-13: 9781138899834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026

Sonit Bafna

Opis

Imaginative Reasoning in the Shaping of Buildings proposes that buildings evoke the viewer's recreative imagination and this matters to the shaping of buildings. Author Sonit Bafna argues that three topics in human cognition---explanation and interpretation, attention, and imagination---support this idea, and he draws from psychology, studies of vision, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind and science. Includes cases studies such as, a comparison of early twentieth-century German and English houses, a survey of Mies Van Der Rohe's residences, changes in Louis Kahn’s design of a Unitarian church, and pavilions in the royal palace at Fatehpur Sikri in India, and 90 black and white images.

Spis treści

1. The Paradoxical Character of Architecture  2. The Case for a Functional Theory: Explaining Typological Form through Generic Social Function  3: The Limits of Social Function: Problems in the Explanation of Intentional Form Making  4. The Structure of Viewer’s Attention: The Role of Anticipated Attentionality in Shaping Design  5. Imagination as a Generic Cognitive Function  6. The Consequences of the Generic Imaginative Function: The Emergence of Inferable Intentional Structure in Design  7. Broader Implications of the Idea of Imaginative Function: Addressing Long-Standing Issues in Reflective Practice, and Identifying a Program for Research in Architecture.  Annotated Bibliography.  Image Credits.  Index