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Architecture, Mentalities and Meaning (Paperback)
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Architecture, Mentalities and Meaning (Paperback)
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In order to function, architectural theory and practice must be
shaped to suit current cultural, economic, and political forces.
Thus, architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the
treatment of human and social processes - which raises the question
of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that
must conform to a set of immediate conditions. This book focuses on
meaning, and on the physical and mental processes that define life
in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from
aesthetics, psychology, political economy, philosophy, geography,
and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is
inevitably reductive, cultural, socio-economic, and political.
However, despite the duty to conform, it is argued that the
treatment of human processes, and the understanding of
architectural mentalities, can benefit from interdisciplinary
linkages, small freedoms, and cracks in a system of imperatives
that can yield the means of greater objectivity. This is valuable
reading for students and researchers interested in architectural
theory as a working reality, and in the relationships between
architecture and other fields.
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