What Architecture Means: Connecting Ideas and Design

ISBN-13: 9780415739030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 300 str.

Denise Costanzo

Opis

What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing famous and everyday buildings while presenting and questioning the positions of important architects and theorists, this book will help you to evaluate and decide what qualities, ideas, and values you believe are important in architecture. You'll learn: -How various definitions of "architecture" establish different relationships with all buildings, and even non-buildings;
-How buildings express and accommodate ideas of the sacred, the family, and the community;
-What an architect is, and what priorities they bring to design and construction;
-How an architect's expertise relates to that of the engineer, and why these are distinct disciplines;
-About values like beauty, originality, structural expression, and cultural memory and their purpose in architectural design;
-About the interests and ethical values that architects, and architecture, serves and promotes. Topics include sacred spaces, the house, the city, architects and engineers, aesthetics and design, originality and method, technology and form, memory and identity, and power and politics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Preface  Introduction: What is "Architecture"?  Part I: Where is Architecture? Divinity, Domesticity, Community  Chapter 1: Sacred Spaces  Chapter 2: The House  Chapter 3: The City  Part II: Who Makes Architecture? Builders, Professionals, Artists  Chapter 4: Architects and Engineers  Chapter 5: Aesthetics  Chapter 6: Originality  Part III: What is Architecture About? Physics, Places, People  Chapter 7: Structure and Form  Chapter 8: Memory and Identity  Chapter 9: Power and Politics  Conclusion: Two Films, Two Architects, Your Ideas  Image Credits  Bibliography  Glossary  Index

O autorze

Denise Costanzo is an assistant professor of architecture at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. During 2014-2015 she was the American Academy in Rome’s Marian and Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies.