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Building Time - Architecture, event, and experience (Paperback)
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Building Time - Architecture, event, and experience (Paperback)
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While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes,
this book explores architecture’s temporal dimensions. Through a
series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and
classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern
architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to
understanding good architecture. All buildings exist in time. Even
if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but inevitably.
They change use, they accrue history and meaning, they decay –
all of these processes are inscribed in time. So too is the path
traced by the sun through a building, and the movements of the
human body from room to room. Time, this book argues, is the
framework for our spatial experience of architecture, and a key
dimension of a building’s structure and significance. Building
Time presents twelve close readings of buildings and artworks which
explore this idea. Examining works by distinctive modern architects
– from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang Shu – it takes the
reader, in some cases literally step-by-step, through a built work,
and provides insightful reflections on the importance of ‘making
space for time’ in architectural design. This is a book for both
theorists and for architectural designers. Through it, theorists
will find a way to rethink the fundamental premises and aims of
design work, while designers will rediscover the order and ideas
that shape the world around them—its buildings, interiors, and
landscapes.
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