The Cultural Role of Architecture : Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415783408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Paul Emmons;Jane Lomholt;John Hendrix

Opis

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word 'culture' in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations of cultural identities. Chapters written by international academics in history, theory and philosophy of architecture, examine how different modes of representation throughout history have drawn profound meanings from cultural practices and beliefs. These are as diverse as the designs they inspire and include religious, mythic, poetic, political, and philosophical references.

Spis treści

Prologue: Cultivating Architecture  Part 1: Architecture as Agent of Recovery, a Testimony to Values  Introduction  1. Greek Theatre as an Embodiment of Cultural Meaning  2. The Restoration of the Hut of Romulus  3. Il Corridoio Vasariano: A Resplendent Passage to Medici and Vasari’s Grandeur  4. Language Beyond Metaphor: The Structural Symbolism of Borromini’s Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza  5. Villa Albani, Repository of Multiple Narratives  6. The Space of Fiction: On the Cultural Relevance of Architecture  7. Using Old Stuff and Thinking in a New Way: Material Culture, Conservation and Fashion in Architecture  Part 2: Architecture as Substance and Sustenance: Cultural Desires and Needs  Introduction  8. De Beata Architectura, Places for Thinking  9. Sverre Fehn: Materials and Culture  10. A Persuasive Topology: Alvar Aalto and the Ambience of History  11. Freiraum: Ideas of Freedom and Nature in the Work of Mies van der Rohe  12. Architectural Poetics in Alvaro Siza’s Church of Santa Maria  13. "The Play of Plans: Le Corbusier’s Serious Game of Dominos  14. Something out of the "Ordinary"  Part 3: A Time of Aspirations: Cultural Understanding of the Roles of Architecture  15. The Relevance of Beauty in Architecture  16. Architectural Creation Between ‘Culture’ and ‘Civilization’  17. Architectural Identity Demystified: Visual Voices from the Arab World  18. The Fiction of the Digital in the Mediated City  19. The Memory of Ruins and the Ruins of Memory 20. The Conceptual Bearings of the Intercultural Role of Architecture  21. Architecture as the Psyche of a Culture  Epilogue: The Necessity of Architecture