The architect Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in
architecture was not what a building 'looks like' on the day it
opens, but what it 'is like' to live in thirty years later. In this
book Robert McCarter presents a persuasive defence of why and how
interior spatial experience is the necessary starting point for
design, and why the quality of that experience is the only
appropriate means of evaluating a work of architecture after it is
built.We live in an age dominated by images. We often feel we
'know' architecture and the places it makes, both old and new,
through the photos of buildings we see in print and online, without
ever inhabiting their spaces. McCarter argues that we need to
counter our contemporary obsession with exterior views and forms,
and makes a powerful case for the primacy of the interior
experience in architecture.The Space Within explores how interior
space has been integral to the development of Modern architecture
from the late 1800s to today, and how generations of architects
have engaged with interior space and its experience in their design
processes.In doing so, they fundamentally transformed the
traditional methods and goals of architectural composition. As
McCarter argues, for many of the most recognized and respected
architects practising today, the conception of the interior spatial
experience continues to be the starting point for design. Through
historical and current examples of architectural works he takes us
through how this is done, and eloquently places us within the
spaces.
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